Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 3:29 am
Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:15 am
A model is not the thing being modelled. A description is not the thing being described. The reality described by quantum mechanics doesn't exist
because of quantum mechanical descriptions. It just exists, and we have empirical evidence for its existence, which is why we can begin to describe it correctly.
Yes it is kindergarten, that a model is never the thing-being-modelled.
But you were just very blind with the term 'realism' in Model-dependent
Realism where the focus is not on the 'model' per se but rather the 'realism', i.e. the reality.
You need to read Hawking's book, The Grand Design to understand what he was referring to re 'Model Dependent Realism'.
In his book, Hawking argued against the classical mind-independent objective reality of Philosophical Realism which is impossible, not tenable nor realistic.
As such Hawking proposed what is most realistic is 'Model Dependent Realism'.
The reality described by quantum mechanics doesn't exist because of quantum mechanical descriptions.
It just exists, and we have empirical evidence for its existence, which is why we can begin to describe it correctly.
It just exists?? and we have empirical evidence for its existence??
How can you be so ignorant on this issue of reality? re philosophical perspective. That is because you are stuck in the kindergarten class.
Humanity can only claim [not described] whatever exists as real upon the verification and justification of the related empirical evidences its existence.
It not just, but the verification and justification must be conditioned and in compliance with a Framework and System of Knowledge [FSK] and Reality[FSR].
This is what I have been drumming into you for 'eons' but your skull is so thick.
You cannot claim 'it just exists' without qualify its existence to the specific FSK or FSR of your claim or reality.
At present the most credible FSK in justifying what is real is the scientific FSK which has its sub-FSK in terms of degrees of reality;
1. Newtonian FSK -classical reality and objectivity but limited
2. Einsteinian FSK - more realistic and objective than 1
3. QM FSK - more realistic and objective than 2 and 1.
Btw, the science FSK merely ASSUMEs the ASSUMPTION that is an objective reality out there awaiting discovery.
Note ASSUMPTION!
As such, WHO ARE YOU to think your FSK is more credible than the science FSK, where you are claiming there is really a mind-independent objective reality out there.
What you have been claiming as a reality that is 'just is' is merely a reified illusion.
You keep babbling about 'description' with blinkers on within a silo.
What we have re reality is this;
1. Scientific-FSK-conditioned-reality [SFCR],
2. Description of that SFCR.
There is no objective reality that is 'just it' without its specific qualification or predicate.
Whatever is objective reality must be qualified to a specific FSK.
The morality FSK has near credibility to the scientific FSK.
Since science is objective, morality is also objective.