QUANTUM METAPHYSICS - E-thesis

surrounds us. This may be a problem for the scientific approach. If even physicists who are
directly dealing with reality cannot provide a clear overall picture of their research objectives,
the arguments of post-modern Relativism are difficult to block. Physicists who belittle the
problem of the interpretation of quantum mechanics have not perhaps understood that the
requirement for a clear interpretation is not an attempt to impose limitations on the methods used
by physicists, it is more the use of theories developed by physics to achieve an improved
understanding of reality. Clarification of the foundations for our conception of reality might
even provide some solutions to the current cultural crisis.
3.4.2. Crisis in the scientific portrayal of the human being
Methodological monists interested in the success achieved by classical physics have usually
taken the view that only a single scientific method is needed to follow the whole of reality. The
attempt has been made to fit all possible phenomena from pyschology to economics into a
Newtonian framework in order to combine all scientific results into a single unified world-view.
Even today, for example, many social biologists and evolutionary psychologists strive to reduce
human and societal phenomena to physics and chemistry. In the pursuit of a consistent basis for
the explanation, it has been over and over again proposed that living beings are nothing more
than assemblies of matter which obey physical and chemical laws. 380
Science has not, however, succeeded in finding final solutions to the metaphysical questions
which concern the nature of reality. The achievements of classical physics did not prove the
world-view of ancient atomist to be basically true. The limitations in particlemechanistic approac
gave rise to the psycho-physical problem that has troubled philosophy throughout the modern era
and in spite of many efforts we still do not really understand the relationship between the human
mind, will and intention, and a world assumed to consist of matter that obeys mechanisticdeterministic
laws. Even though the human mind and consciousness are generally presumed to
be products of evolution, the feedback produced by human influence and choices on cultural
evolution and the formation of natural processes is difficult to explain on the basis of a universal
materialistic and deterministic conception of reality.
At the beginning of the 1900s, psychology and phenomena of the human mind were generally
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