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[OPE-L:3513] Re: Re: Re: Re: Marxism and 19th century materialism

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Allin,

I think you would very much enjoy reading the Albert references I mentioned!
Quantum mechanics without the argument that the observer affects reality.

Cheers,
Steve


From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [OPE-L:3511] Re: Re: Re: Marxism and 19th century materialism
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 08:50:27 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Paul Cockshott wrote:

> Beyond that I regard the Copenhagen interpretation as itself
> being an idealist interpretation of the subject matter.

IMO the starting point for New Age appropriations of quantum
mechanics is not actually Bohr's interpretation
("Complementarity", the idea that nature is irreducibly
stochastic), but rather the notion von Neumann introduced, that
the collapse of the wave-function is located in the
consciousness of "the observer".

Allin Cottrell.


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