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Marcel Chelba

Comments on an article by David Tong in Scientific

Amertican:

Is Quantum Reality Analog after All?

Quantum theorists often speak of the world as being pointillist

at the smallest scales. Yet a closer look at the laws of nature

suggests that the physical world is actually continuousmoreanalog than digital.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-quantum-

reality-analog-after-all

13. kantinomus 07:54 AM 11/27/12

I think we will not be able to overcome this dilemma until we

understand "what it means to know" and "if reality is

intelligible or not" unless "the very essence of reality is to be

unintelligible".

If "scientific knowledge is only a hermeneutics of empirical

experience" (as I argue, as an extension of Kantian

epistemology and of Copenhagen School), the "continuous"

and "discrete" are not two "complementary aspects of reality

but only two "complementary paradigms of our faculty of

representation", ie two "matrix" (grids of interpretation),

substantially diffent, which we apply alternative to reality,

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based on our empirical data, to obtain predictions the smallest

margin of error.

They give us the illusion that they were part of the very flesh of

reality because of their local and temporary success in our

empirical experiments.

Reality is neither "continuous" nor "discrete". Depending on

how we cut reality, and the microscope through which we look,

"physical reality" answer us "as if" should be "continuous" or"discrete", but we can not afford this illusion only because

margin of error in our representation is, for the moment, within

acceptable limits.

"Standard model" will necessarily be a compromise between

these two "mathematical paradigms". If this compromise is

impossible, it means that we are condemned to endlessly

troubled by this dilemma and that physical reality will smileforever, enigmatic, outside all our scientific theories, as will be

fine.

In other words, I move this "dilemma of physics to the

domain of epistemology because it's not only of physics, but

of our entire scientific knowledge.

"Epistemological dilemma" that I raise is whether "empirical

reality" choose her "model of interpretation " or our "model of

interpretation" choose his "empirical reality"?

I have this problem more fully theorized in chapter "Dilemma

and method of metaphysics" in my book "Critical Introduction.

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On the possibility of metaphysics as a science in the

perspective of Kant's critical philosophy "(2004).

Is available on Scribd, in Romanian. In English, only a small

fragment.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17474184/Marcel-Chelba-Kantian-

tetralogy-Vol-I-Critical-Introduction-About-the-possibility-of-

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