tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post7126005850590907253..comments2024-03-25T09:11:17.877-07:00Comments on The Curious Wavefunction: Philosophy begins where physics ends, and physics begins where philosophy endsWavefunctionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14993805391653267639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-23139925030277613102014-12-09T14:26:16.213-08:002014-12-09T14:26:16.213-08:00I'm afraid I must take issue with your very ti...I'm afraid I must take issue with your very title, which presupposes an identifiable, crisp boundary between physics and philosophy. <br /><br />To the contrary, philosophy begins well before physics leaves off, and vice versa: there is a broad region of overlap where a given inquiry can be both physics and philosophy, <i>to some degree</i>. <br /><br />Public "yes it is"/"no it's not" debates are entertaining for all involved, but rely on over-Booleanization, the intellectual laziness of rounding off complexities and nuances to either black or white.<br /><br />I believe this point is consistent with the rest of your article, which I loved.<br />Rick Bryannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633767.post-85148579861553797222014-12-02T01:48:06.152-08:002014-12-02T01:48:06.152-08:00Lawrence krauss comes across as an arrogant scient...Lawrence krauss comes across as an arrogant scientist even in public fora when he delivers lectures(TED). However the larger point is that not many philosophers can be bothered to shut up and compute the hypothesis they may come up with.<br /><br />Sometimes philosophizing about an idea can bring about a revolution. This higher level of thinking where one questions fundamental assumptions of reality needs to be followed up with computable answers to questions , something philosophers rarely do.<br /><br />There are very good reasons about why Oppenheimer and Einstein had misgivings about QM and black holes and we will know how true they were only when a deeper theory that subsumes QM, relativity emerges. Maybe QM is a successful approximation to a much deeper reality.<br /><br />Just like the recent interest in pre big-bang physics there is a much richer physics inside of black holes that we do not know as of now.<br /><br />The issue is not that philosophers are useless , the issue is that they could be so much more useful to understanding reality were they to compute.Rajeev Gangalnoreply@blogger.com