FROM QUANTUM MECHANICS TO QUANTUM REALITY
Throughout the 20th century, quantum mechanics was celebrated as the ultimate proof that modern science is leaving behind deterministic mechanical materialism and admitted that it is dealing with non-material entities; moreover, the notion that our reality takes place through being observed opens u...
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Throughout the 20th century, quantum mechanics was celebrated as the ultimate proof that modern science is leaving behind deterministic mechanical materialism and admitted that it is dealing with non-material entities; moreover, the notion that our reality takes place through being observed opens up to a subjectivist denial of objective reality. Some quantum scientists themselves claimed that the only way to account for our entire universe is to presuppose a global external observer (i.e., God). The text rejects not only this direct theological solution but also the traditional “realist” stance which secretly relies on a divine dimension (the divine status of natural laws). It proposes a reading of the ontological implications of quantum physics which opens up the way for a consequent materialism, even if, from a traditional reading, this may appear to be an odd materialism without matter.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b742063f2d994d2683e10d96408c39892023-06-14T11:06:01ZcesInstitute of Philosophy SAS, v.v.i.Filozofia0046-385X2585-70612023-06-0178610.31577/filozofia.2023.78.6.1FROM QUANTUM MECHANICS TO QUANTUM REALITYSlavoj Žižek Throughout the 20th century, quantum mechanics was celebrated as the ultimate proof that modern science is leaving behind deterministic mechanical materialism and admitted that it is dealing with non-material entities; moreover, the notion that our reality takes place through being observed opens up to a subjectivist denial of objective reality. Some quantum scientists themselves claimed that the only way to account for our entire universe is to presuppose a global external observer (i.e., God). The text rejects not only this direct theological solution but also the traditional “realist” stance which secretly relies on a divine dimension (the divine status of natural laws). It proposes a reading of the ontological implications of quantum physics which opens up the way for a consequent materialism, even if, from a traditional reading, this may appear to be an odd materialism without matter. https://journals.savba.sk/index.php/filozofia/article/view/1753Quantum mechanicsBell’s TheoremNiels BohrExperimental metaphysicsCounterfactual definiteness |
| spellingShingle | Slavoj Žižek FROM QUANTUM MECHANICS TO QUANTUM REALITY Filozofia Quantum mechanics Bell’s Theorem Niels Bohr Experimental metaphysics Counterfactual definiteness |
| title | FROM QUANTUM MECHANICS TO QUANTUM REALITY |
| title_full | FROM QUANTUM MECHANICS TO QUANTUM REALITY |
| title_fullStr | FROM QUANTUM MECHANICS TO QUANTUM REALITY |
| title_full_unstemmed | FROM QUANTUM MECHANICS TO QUANTUM REALITY |
| title_short | FROM QUANTUM MECHANICS TO QUANTUM REALITY |
| title_sort | from quantum mechanics to quantum reality |
| topic | Quantum mechanics Bell’s Theorem Niels Bohr Experimental metaphysics Counterfactual definiteness |
| url | https://journals.savba.sk/index.php/filozofia/article/view/1753 |
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