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Tarja Kallio-Tamminen QUANTUM METAP
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Tarja Kallio-Tamminen QUANTUM METAP
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Contents Preface 1. Introduction 11
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Preface Even when I was at school,
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increasingly familiarity with the m
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was there, and whose inspiring work
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As I see it, profound change in way
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scientific method and its objective
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objects featuring in modern physics
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determined and permanent place than
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philosophical context, a conception
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e seen as intertwined and influenti
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time. 24 Even a speculation as abst
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The idea of a single fundamental su
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substance may be one of the known e
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proposed by Pythagoras 42 (ca. 572-
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eing is, and unbeing is not, there
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Empedocles believed that the combin
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The antique Atomists Leukippos and
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elong to actual reality. 71 The tea
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Even though the teachings of the an
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shared a common scepticism, a mistr
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perceived and changing sense-world
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egulating the universe. The terms l
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own quality. 105 Plato's influence
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icks could be used to make houses.
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deduced in a logical manner. While
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Classical physics concentrated prim
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form. 126 The concept of quantum st
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concepts of the Sceptics and Stoics
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salvation of every human soul. In f
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incorrect. Aquinas took the view th
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way of thinking. 149 Thought concer
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viewpoint, touched all aspects of w
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In the following sections, the outl
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follower of Ptolemy, so after a per
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Copernicus had adhered to Plato’s
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eliefs are symbolised in a vignette
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e mathematical knowledge of quantit
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Democritus’ atomic doctrine, whic
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had simply not been understood corr
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The logic of inductive thought base
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confidence of Europe’s educated c
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Descartes employed many Aristotlean
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2.3.3. Isaac Newton’s synthesis O
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demonstrate mathematically that suc
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possible. 242 3. The Mechanistic-de
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experiments. Physical events were o
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mechanical and deterministic ideals
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it is more important to examine the
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depend on that body’s velocity. N
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future development. 272 It is, howe
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and events observed in the world ca
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independently examine all the world
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measured. Even if some people conti
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and adapted it to both political an
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hundred senses of the word ‘free
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world of our perceptions and feelin
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etween them becomes a problem. How
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in physics is a psychic concept. Th
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George Berkeley (1685-1753) Berkele
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secondary value when compared to kn
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Order observed in the world is not
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either religion or ethics. Also sci
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harmony, was reminiscent of Christi
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subjective consciousness about each
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and philosophers, signified the ant
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experience by affirming anything th
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esulting from experience, so-called
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for scientific certainty was the us
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Devlin, many obvious problems have
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Democritus’ assumption that all e
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approached via behaviourism. Favour
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advocated by Aristotle - i.e. put r
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into the influence of genes. 392 In
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3.4.4. The metaphysical foundation
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inertia, according to which the cha
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evaluations of our basic beliefs is
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3.5.1. The conception of reality as
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W. Whewell in the 1800s that theori
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When humans learnt how to construct
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paradigm or research programme cann
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fit the given mechanistic-determini
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knowledge concerning reality in an
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than other modern theories of compa
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proved correct by any quantity of e
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Even though the philosophical premi
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amount of energy. He was not able t
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acquainted with Rutherford and Thom
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material. These experiments agreed
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Hamilton 460 . Erwin Schrödinger,
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and phases. As every waveform corre
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measuring yields exact values, it a
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esult of an experiment. 479 The cha
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while quantum mechanics has been a
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4.2. New features connected with qu
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particles out of these fields using
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Many of the problems of interpretin
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abstract and by itself insufficient
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internmediate states are impossible
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circumstances where this experiment
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Since it is not possible to accurat
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In contrast to Heisenberg, Bohr did
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In the EPR state, the wave function
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Precise measurements of correlation
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Phase entanglement associated with
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Disturbance caused by measurement a
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Even if, at first sight, chance app
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saw that it had become clear that r
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Correct conception of the matter ha
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quantum mechanics required a radica
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defining the observation of phenome
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mathematical equations of natural s
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physics. As a philosopher Bohr was
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structure and emitted radiation, hi
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in which they can be experienced an
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objects with the help of natural la
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Como. 629 At this occasion, in addi
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complementary way of approaching th
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ecause we are fettered by our forms
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The view-point of complementarity a
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4.3.4. Later attempts to interpret
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metaphysical determinists complete
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would require a rational broadening
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quantum theory directly offer its o
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concepts as being too bizarre and r
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mathematician, questioned the tradi
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Pauli emphasized, in the same way a
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analyses of the nature of reality a
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presuppositions and objective ideal
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abandon the traditional objective w
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For example, an observer can, using
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used for measurement defines the co
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generate a model for the process of
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oom for their separate existence in
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a radioactive source is connected t
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physics, his assertion that a quant
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appreciated by Einstein, and he wro
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of action requires that the object
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Theory of Everything, TOE). He felt
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usability and their many concrete a
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Bohr’s way of thinking, touching
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parameter. Natural laws always rema
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made to return all events to some i
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This relationality connected with t
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influenced by, autonomous subjects
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new facts revealed by quantum theor
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