Nature is not natural and can never be naturalized — Graham Harman

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Treating Objects like Women 2

When Bohr and others talk about measurement, they mean some correlation between a (human) mind and a physical event.

When Bohm, Hiley and Valentini talk about measurement, they mean one object (say a photon) interacting with another object.

The first view is inevitably going to tend towards idealism. It starts as correlationism.

The second view gives us real objects interacting without (human, mental) observation.

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