Comments on: Temperamental Physicists http://mattleifer.info/2006/08/29/tempremental-physicists/ Mathematics -- Physics -- Quantum Theory Sun, 13 May 2012 20:04:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Alejandro http://mattleifer.info/2006/08/29/tempremental-physicists/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Alejandro Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:04:25 +0000 https://mattleifer.wordpress.com/2006/08/29/tempremental-physicists/#comment-68 The William James quote is from <a href="http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/James/James_1907/James_1907_01.html" rel="nofollow">the first chapter of <i>Pragmatism</i></a>. An excellent read, by the way. The William James quote is from the first chapter of Pragmatism. An excellent read, by the way.

]]> By: koantum http://mattleifer.info/2006/08/29/tempremental-physicists/comment-page-1/#comment-67 koantum Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:29:24 +0000 https://mattleifer.wordpress.com/2006/08/29/tempremental-physicists/#comment-67 "[W]e all need to be charitable towards our peers, more often wondering what they really mean than thoughtlessly dismissing what they say. If we are harder on ourselves and more gentle with others, together we might converge more quickly on the truth, whatever that may be." — Murray Shanahan in a recent issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies. I am as interested in the debate about the "hard problem" of consciousness as in the debate about quantum semantics. They have so much in common! Here is the last sentence from my last post at <a href="http://koantum.wordpress.com/2006/08/27/wok-and-science/" rel="nofollow">koantum matters</a>: "Science operates within an interpretative framework that formulates questions and interprets answers. This framework, which makes all the difference, is itself not testable." But we need one, don't we? “[W]e all need to be charitable towards our peers, more often wondering what they really mean than thoughtlessly dismissing what they say. If we are harder on ourselves and more gentle with others, together we might converge more quickly on the truth, whatever that may be.” — Murray Shanahan in a recent issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies.

I am as interested in the debate about the “hard problem” of consciousness as in the debate about quantum semantics. They have so much in common! Here is the last sentence from my last post at koantum matters:

“Science operates within an interpretative framework that formulates questions and interprets answers. This framework, which makes all the difference, is itself not testable.”

But we need one, don’t we?

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