tags: model dependent realism

2016

January

2016 Jan 26

Model Dependent Realism

As far as our senses and measuring instruments are concerned, the only thing that is real are the shadows. Whatever is casting those shadows is not directly accessible.

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2016 Jan 26

There's More Than One Way to Think about It

I find it funny that the thing the scientific method and quantum physics and biology taught me is that duality, diversity, plurality is reality. There isn't one right answer to anything. Reductionism can be useful, but it's not reality. And anyone who says it is is trying to sell you something.

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2016 Jan 26

Ptolemy and Empiricism

It's funny how people use the example of Copernicus and the heliocentric model as the archetype for scientific progress. The fact of the matter is that, at least initially, Ptolemy's geocentric model actually still made more accurate predictions.

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2016 Jan 26

Wave-Particle Duality

I don't understand the math well enough to actually know, but isn't the reason why we even have a wave-particle duality because not only do we lack the precise language to describe the things that are waves-and-particles, but we also lack the precise equations to describe things as simultaneously waves-and-particles?

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