mj23h ago
The culmination of the measurement problem apparently resides in a Ptolemaic-like, disjointed collection of modern hutzpah math. We often seem to do better just letting our human senses take the lead. Yet the hutzpah promoters tell us not to trust them; we can be fooled. Both methods can fool us!

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The downside of the "unreasonable effectiveness of #mathematics" is that it also provides an unreasonably effective opacity that most are not equipped, or simply don't have the luxury of time to uncover. "A lot of what we see comes from the glasses we put on." math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDr...

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

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Have to include this quote from Eddington mentioned above: "Some men went fishing in the sea with a net, and upon examining what they caught they concluded that there was a minimum size to the fish in the sea." Oh, the tangled nets we weave!
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Another great line: "So long as we use a mathematics in which the whole is the sum of the parts we are not likely to have mathematics as a major tool in examining these questions." We differ on the evolution bit: IMO, some math is innate universal; in & of us. #complexity #meaning #superposition