Ruth\'s \"real\" possibilities (General)

by rekastner , Saturday, August 03, 2013, 01:41 (4129 days ago) @ dhw

Dh, I think I understand what's bothering you. I take as my starting point Heisenberg's comments, but keep in mind that he is assuming that 'real' = 'physically real'. I refer to Heisenberg's formulation, but I do differ with it in that I don't assume that because something is not physically real, that it is unreal. Note that in my figure 7.2, I don't say that category III is 'unreal', I just don't take it as physically real. -However, this doesn't rule out some subtler level of physical reality for category III. For purposes of my book, which discusses a particular interpretation of QM, I assume that ideas in the mind are not described by QM, because QM has not been applied to these, nor is it clear how one would do that. But I'm not saying it's impossible.