And now there's a "NEW Copenhagen Interpretation" thanks I think to Omnes.
I've always thought the gist of it was that there were classical objects--because OF COURSE our measurements give us single values--and the quantum objects of study. The purpose of physics was not really to account for the reality at base that explained how macroscopic classical reality is built from quantum stuff. The purpose of physics is to explain experiments.
Heisenberg seemed a positivist through and through for his whole career. States as matrices, the S-matrix, all that seemed to codify that the physical reality was whatever you could measure from it.
Tipler has said some extremely insane things and published them in books.
I do get annoyed at computer scientists pursuing AI to explain how the brain works. Perhaps intuition from dealing with natural physical systems--not even biological systems--makes me suspect the workings are not so straightforwardly cut and dried as the strong AI proponents make them to be.
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Date: 2005-07-16 08:08 pm (UTC)I've always thought the gist of it was that there were classical objects--because OF COURSE our measurements give us single values--and the quantum objects of study. The purpose of physics was not really to account for the reality at base that explained how macroscopic classical reality is built from quantum stuff. The purpose of physics is to explain experiments.
Heisenberg seemed a positivist through and through for his whole career. States as matrices, the S-matrix, all that seemed to codify that the physical reality was whatever you could measure from it.
Tipler has said some extremely insane things and published them in books.
I do get annoyed at computer scientists pursuing AI to explain how the brain works. Perhaps intuition from dealing with natural physical systems--not even biological systems--makes me suspect the workings are not so straightforwardly cut and dried as the strong AI proponents make them to be.