Sokal’s paper brought up the possibility of a morphogenetic field affecting quantum mechanics, which sounds slightly less rigorous than a Discworld joke
There are plenty of New Age people who seriously believe that the world works that way.
Or find it a reasonable / plausible theory…
I’m married to one who evolved into one who reads that pseudo-science, instead of the Stephen Hawking she used to read 20 years ago...
The concept doesn’t come from Sokal but from Rupert Sheldrake who used the term in his 1995 book (http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-morphogeneticfields.html).
There are plenty of New Age people who seriously believe that the world works that way.
Or find it a reasonable / plausible theory… I’m married to one who evolved into one who reads that pseudo-science, instead of the Stephen Hawking she used to read 20 years ago...