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Quantum mechanics, Plato’s Cave and the blind piranha - C C - May 23, 2024
https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/quantum-mechanics-platos-cave-and-the-blind-piranha
EXCERPTS (John Horgan): If we realize we’re in the cave, isn’t that the same, sort of, as escaping from it? Better yet, if we can never escape the cave, isn’t that the same as saying that there is no cave, because this everyday world is the one and only reality? And doesn’t that imply that we should just chill out and enjoy ourselves, like the business majors said?
Maybe. On good days, I look out the window [...] and I think, Yes, this is reality, there is nothing else. But then I remember the quantum mist at the core of reality, which not even the smartest sages can penetrate, and to which most of us are oblivious. And I remember the piranha, bumping over and over again into the walls of its prison, blind to its own blindness... (MORE - missing details)
RE: Quantum mechanics, Plato’s Cave and the blind piranha - confused2 - May 31, 2024
I see John Horgan as being a sort of idiot sibling of (someone like) Sabine Hossenfelder. At the very least he didn't inherit the integrity gene. The difference is that one (Sabine) is a science reporter and the other (Horgan) is a journalist spinning stories out of .. anything. If pressed I'll present evidence to support my opinion .. if not then enough is enough.