Naslov
Descartes in Entanglement

Autori
Domazet, Mladen

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Skup
Descartes and Contemporary Philosophy

Mjesto i datum
Samobor, Hrvatska, 20.05.2007. - 23.05.2007

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Ključne riječi
quantum theory; primary qualities; entanglement; non-locality; explanation

Sažetak
« the perception I have of [the piece of wax] is a case not of vision or touch or imagination, [… ], but of purely mental scrutiny» In Descartes’ Meditations the sense data were deceiving and a realist had to find a scientific explanation that relies on other senses and reason to expose the sensory (usually visual) illusion, explain how it comes about and describe what the world really is like (of course, foundationally stemming the rational certainty of the Cogito and the intuitive appeal of the geometric primary qualities). Primarily, think of the stick bending in water example here. The contemporary quantum mechanics seems to claim that the whole mechanistic conception of the world is deceiving: the spatial separation does not allow for regulation of physical causality, the basic constituents are not in mechanistic interaction, the supposed knowledge of the macroscopic world is an illusion. What is the new realist solution? Is it to simply try to posit the limits of human knowledge of the world ; to acknowledge the rules governing the new 'sensory perception' (information gathering) and try to live with that (this is an anti-Cartesian move of deferring partially to skepticism about the physical world) ; or is it to find a reasonable explanation of the origin of deception and a depiction of what the world really is like? Obviously the latter follows the spirit of realism, but is it possible and what are the criteria by which we would accept it? What are the new primary qualities imposed by ‘ clearly and distinctly’ perceived in the physical world?

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Engleski

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