Is there relation between Quantum Physics and Philosophy or Metaphysics like Cogito Ergo Sum and Buddhism?

Question

I think their similarities are the controlling of minds, and that we are all interdependent as one whole part of the universe/universes. I would be glad if you could recommend some good sources about Quantum Physics, and even better, with the discussions of the view above.
Thanks.

Answer 1

There is no direct relation, but there are similarities in that you are basically answering questions in your own mind. Often you are thinking about things which you will never know the real answer. Just as physicists can discuss what is the smallest particle (the answer has frequently changed over the last 100 years) a philosopher may ask "what is the path to enlightenment". The true answer to both questions are seemingly unknowable. However, both parties will often derive an answer in their mind that they are comfortable with or that seems to allow their world to 'make sense' (at least for the time being).

A book that may touch on this type of question could be "Physics As Metaphor" by Roger Jones. I read it many years ago.

Answer 2

No, but ideas from one area can help stimulate creative thinking in another.

One of the major fallacies of movies like "What the Bleep Do We Know" and other philosophical ideas based on quantum physics is that what we observe or deduce about the quantum world has analogies to the macro world we live it--it SO doesn't. As in, not even close. Which is why physicists are struggling so hard to develop a unified theory.

Nonetheless--if you insist. The old classic is "The Dancing Wu Li Masters." May have misspelled it--it's been 20 years since I read it. It doesn't matter that it's not up to date with current science--the point is the same.

Here's a better idea--search Amazon for anything authored by Richard Feynman, and pick one that looks interesting to you. He was one of the most prominent physicists of our time, and he was a master at explaining physics to a lay audience.

Answer 3

One often wanders into the metaphysical domain when it comes to competing interpretions of Quantum Mechanics. It can be avoided though, if you try. If you strive to treat QM as simply a mathematical framework unifying observations - a humble procedure for predicting the probability distribution of future observations based on prior ones, then metaphysics doesn't come into play. However, if you insist that QM is suppose to be describing an objective "reality" independent of observers, or a subjective reality revolving around observers collapsing wave functions with their minds, then you will inevitably find yourself pondering many worlds and parallel universes frothing forth from the cosmic foam - or not. Interpretations inherently incapable of being proved or disproved by observation fall squarely within the realm of metaphysics.

Answer 4

i'm not effective precisely what you have become at yet enable's commence by technique of putting aside metaphysics as defined by technique of different solutions. And enable's call astronomy >> conventional relativity. If we evaluate conventional relativity the physics of huge scale and quantum mechanics the physics of small scale, then we may be able to assert that their relation is an unsolved difficulty in physics. There are theories notwithstanding being developed to conquer this difficulty like String concept and M concept.

Answer 5

quantum physics has nothing to do with philosophy. metaphysics is a misnomer, it is not physics it is philosophy.