“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, October 2, 2011

Quanta, Units, Objects

The reason why entanglement is such a big deal is precisely because quanta are discrete units. In no sense does the quantum theory give succor to an ontology of total relatedness.

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that quantum, unit, and object (OOO style) are synonyms. It's been a while since I've posted on it but these thoughts are making their way into my thinking on Kant for Realist Magic (see my previous today).

I just received a gargantuan reply on quanta and Kant from my friend the philosopher and mathematician (and Romanticist!) Arkady Plotnitsky. I'm going to digest that before I post on it.

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