Eubulides wrote:
Quantum mechanics makes it *very difficult* to be a realist in the every
day sense of the term...
Not "everyday," to be sure. But since quantum mechanics insists
that probability functions are imbricated in the most fundamental
elements of the physical world it is indeed very, very difficult
*not* to be a realist in the Platonic sense of the term.
Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N.
Weiner)
