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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.philosophy.meta
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
- Message-ID: <1327@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 18:35:04 GMT
- References: <6163@tuegate.tue.nl> <1992Nov4.173327.16136@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <6201@tuegate.tue.nl>
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- In article <6201@tuegate.tue.nl> johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers) writes:
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- >My view is realistic: I believe that there exists a reality, independant
- >wether we know this or not. The main thing QM has to learn us about this
- >is that the interaction between observers and the rest of reality is not
- >always neglectable.
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- >Therefore, I believe in only one reality. This reality can be described
- >by science. I've never seen any hint that there exists anything more.
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- There seems to be some hint from the modern philosophers that there
- might exist considerably _less_ than a fully independent 'objective'
- reality.
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- Bernard D'Espagnat's book _Reality and the Physicist_ is at least one
- fairly authoritative physical view to the contrary of realism.
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- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
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