12.17.09
False charge of mysticism: resolving paradoxes of QM
I got sidetracked by the idealism question and never really answered the critique of Biocentrism that was posted.
First let me say, I am not an idealist, nor a proponent, as such, of Biocentrism. The latter is a seven course dinner, promised, but only gets to about the third course, still an achievement.
Making a charge of idealism is too easy. What more deadpan ism came into being that the scientism/materialism of the post-Hegelian idealists (Marxism became entangled in that scientism)?
To reject something requires a critique, and the problems of Quantum Mechanics are so vexed, with so little prospect of their solution, that the approach of Lanza could hardly be dismissed at old-fashioned mysticism.
These critics are unaware of the proplems with Darwin’s theory of natural selection and that makes their criticism highly problematical.
I can’t resolve the questions of Quantum Mechanics, but to charge Lanza with mysticism here, or classic idealism, misses the point, that he wants to resolve the paradoxes of QM that physicists can’t resolve.
Using science to debunk mysticism (metaphysics) is a tactic exposed by Kant, who pointed to the double confusions of the metaphysical, including those created by scientific realism.
If physicists could get the mysticism out of QM, they might have a case against mystics of yore.
Stephen P. Smith said,
December 17, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Mysticism is the logical conclusion of the intuitionist program started by the mathematician Brouwer. So the so-called charge of mysticism is not a charge but a badge of honor. Moreover, Brouwer`s intuitionism can be found connected with the space-time fabric.
I finally found a way to refer to my space-time paper by referring to one public source which contains my latest version. Go into the following link, and click on the PDF file:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/serenityandtolerance/attachments/folder/1225819027/item/list
The intuitionist version of Hegel`s logic does not blunder into Marxism. Hegel`s logic, minus our sense-certain feelings and intuitions, is a type of literalism that does blunder into materialism, Marxism and scientism. What the intuitionist discovers is the oscillation that supports doubt and hope, with a realized three spatial dimensions, and one temporal dimension, before graduating to the next level of the infinite dimensional ladder that is available for navigation and the hard work of transcending.
Space-time is discovered to be two-sided!
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