A QBist Ontology
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14584v2
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 02:57:59 GMT
- Title: A QBist Ontology
- Authors: U.J. Mohrhoff
- Abstract summary: It is indebted to QBism, Kant, Bohr, Schr"odinger, the philosophy of the Upanishads, and the evolutionary philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.
It helps clear up unresolved issues in the philosophy of science.
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- Abstract: This paper puts forward an ontology that is indebted to QBism, Kant, Bohr,
Schr\"odinger, the philosophy of the Upanishads, and the evolutionary
philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. Central to it is that reality is relative to
consciousness or experience. Instead of a single mind-independent reality,
there are different poises of consciousness, including a consciousness to which
``we are all really only various aspects of the One'' (Schr\"odinger). This
ontology helps clear up unresolved issues in the philosophy of science, such as
arise from the reification of either instruments or calculational tools, or
from a disregard of the universal context of science, which is human
experience. It further helps clear up unresolved issues in the philosophy of
mind, among them the problem of intentionality and the dilemma posed by the
mutual inclusion of self and world (Husserl's paradox of human subjectivity).
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