tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post510857900543933795..comments2024-03-18T10:15:25.269-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: Defending philosophy againRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-38352766199465198602014-07-05T10:20:46.120-07:002014-07-05T10:20:46.120-07:00What has philosophy had to say worthwhile about ph...What has philosophy had to say worthwhile about physics in the last 50 years? Good grief. What have physicists had to say about physics in the last 50 years that was worthwhile except "it agrees with the standard model"? Do you really want to hold up something like gauge theory as science? Compare new findings to a laundry list of outcomes dependent on hand tuned variables without actual underpinnings? At best it is incomplete nonsense.<br /><br /> SOME philosophers may have become anti science, but I would state that most of physics had become anti science the moment the statistical math replaced any actual workable mechanism. Please do not call quantum mechanics 'science', when it is purely outcome probability calculations, which do not explain any form of causality or mechanical process whatsoever to explain the outcome. This is like saying "cars go places" and pretending this explains anything about what a car is, or how a car functions (much less who directs the thing). Without an underlying context and mechanics, the outcome of any process is almost next to meaningless.<br /><br /> It also bears remembering that if you think math somehow magically informs 'reality', then you are subscribing to a philosophical belief that is a derivation of Platonism. Like any other human contrived system, math may or may not agree with the actuality it is being used to resemble or model. This agreement when it occurs is not indication that reality is math, only that the math model resembles the reality to some degree. Reality or actuality predates the math or any other human contrived system to analyze or describe it, just as the sculpture you carve may resemble the subject, and is not what informs the subject, and is not its cause. If you truly do not like supernatural causes underlying your understanding, stop trying to plug in science or math into the contradictory placeholder of an all knowing and powerful agent. Math and science in reality are just as flawed and imperfect as the current understanding of its practitioners. Claiming otherwise is just so much 'manifest destiny' hogwash.CFTnoreply@blogger.com