“To suppose that physics contains a basic account of “observation” is like supposing that physics contains a basic account of being Republican. It projects a complex, intricate, high-order biological cognition onto fundamental physics. It sounds like a simple theory to humans, but it’s not simple.”
This seems to be arguing in favor of epiphenominalism, but you just spent pages and pages arguing against it. what gives?
I don’t think it is reasonable to expect to find anything about phenomena in quantum physics, but that does not mean it is not hiding somewhere at a lower level. QM gives us the tools to mimic the computations performed at a very low level of physics, but it says nothing about how those computations are actually preformed in the territory, and i suspect phenomena is hiding there.
The fact that i can actually talk about the redness of red and my own thoughts is evidence of this.
“To suppose that physics contains a basic account of “observation” is like supposing that physics contains a basic account of being Republican. It projects a complex, intricate, high-order biological cognition onto fundamental physics. It sounds like a simple theory to humans, but it’s not simple.”
This seems to be arguing in favor of epiphenominalism, but you just spent pages and pages arguing against it. what gives?
I don’t think it is reasonable to expect to find anything about phenomena in quantum physics, but that does not mean it is not hiding somewhere at a lower level. QM gives us the tools to mimic the computations performed at a very low level of physics, but it says nothing about how those computations are actually preformed in the territory, and i suspect phenomena is hiding there.
The fact that i can actually talk about the redness of red and my own thoughts is evidence of this.
I really like these explanations of QM