Post by Katheryne Lin on May 5, 2015 2:44:50 GMT
Essay Question: Week 3
1) Why is understanding physics and the general rules of the universe so important in doing philosophy?
Understanding physics and the general rules of the universe is important in doing philosophy is because like stated in the videos Eliminative Materialism: Part 1 & 2 was that the best way to challenge the topic of consciousness was the process of eliminative materialism in which scientist believed that if the theory was not able to solved mathematically then turned to physics and if not chemistry then to biology and then to sociology meaning that all subjects are connected and in order to fully understand philosophy you must first understand other subjects as well as it leads to one another. And when all else fails then the blame could be put upon “god.” Thus in order to understand a certain topic, you must understand the base. In which philosophy is the study of nature of the mind, in which in the book Quantum Weirdness it states that neurobiology could explain the way the brain works and how it thinks.
2) What is eliminative materialism? Provide three examples of it.
In your videos Eliminative Materialism: Part 1 & 2 & 3 was that the best way to challenge the topic of consciousness was the process of eliminative materialism in which scientist believed that if the theory was not able to solved mathematically then turned to physics and if not chemistry then to biology and then to sociology. One example as stated above would be to attempt various subjects before giving up on a question such as mathematics or biology. Another example would be “The Death of Thor” in which it states that evolution has occurred and that everything in the past has already been advanced and outdated since the olden age. Thus instead of talking about Thor the thunder god, we talked about electromagnetic fields that would cause storms. People believed in gods and would point to the gods, as evolution occurred some eliminated gods while some didn’t. Lastly, the third example would be intelligent reduction in which overtime eliminative materialism allowed us to change everything except our cells to when we understand our own motivations such as desire, motivation, love, anger, and free will in order to describe our well-being.
Extra Credit:
Einstein vs. Bohr:
In this debate, Einstein did not believe that God had any part of the world of physics where as Bohr believed that it was indeed apart of the world of physics. The real question is “Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be considered Complete?” In Einstein vs Bohr, it stated that in order to judge the success of a physical theory, we might ask ourselves two questions, which were “Is the theory correct?” and “ is the description given by the theory complete?” In order to validate the theory it must be judged by the level of agreements between the conclusions of the theory and human experience, in which this provides us the conclusions about realism and in physics it takes the procedure of trial and measurement. It also states that in the quantum mechanics there are two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, in which are the know of one prevents the information of the other. Then either one “the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete” or two “these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality.” In quantum mechanic it is usually assumed that the wave function does not contain a complete description of the physical reality of the system in the state to which it corresponds (Einstein vs Bohr page 4) In which they later they provided evidence that the wave function does not provide a comprehensive account of the physical reality, but they do believe that a theory as such is possible.
Bohr vs Einstein:
In this debate, it states that in a recent article with Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen have obtainable disagreements, which lead them to answer the question pessimistically. Bohr then states “I shall therefore in somewhat greater detail a general viewpoint, conveniently termed “complementarity,” which I have indicated on various previous occasions, and from which quantum mechanics within its scope would appear as a completely rational description of physical phenomena, such as we meet in atomic processes. “ (Bohr Page 3) Bohr stated that it is a well-known feature of the current formalism of quantum mechanics that it is certainly not likely, in the account of the state of a mechanical system, to attach definite values to both of two canonically connect the variable, thus they believe this formalism to be imperfect, and prompt the belief that a more suitable theory can be developed. In Bohr’s conclusion he states that he would like to the overall relativeness theory of the quantum theory. He then concludes with “between the objects of measurements and all instruments defining the space-time system of reference, which in quantum theory confronts us with the situation characterized by the notion of complementarity.” (Bohr Page 10)
Extra Credit:
Replied to Natalie Winokur's essay question "Why is understanding physics and the general rules of the universe so important in doing philosophy?" on May 4
1) Why is understanding physics and the general rules of the universe so important in doing philosophy?
Understanding physics and the general rules of the universe is important in doing philosophy is because like stated in the videos Eliminative Materialism: Part 1 & 2 was that the best way to challenge the topic of consciousness was the process of eliminative materialism in which scientist believed that if the theory was not able to solved mathematically then turned to physics and if not chemistry then to biology and then to sociology meaning that all subjects are connected and in order to fully understand philosophy you must first understand other subjects as well as it leads to one another. And when all else fails then the blame could be put upon “god.” Thus in order to understand a certain topic, you must understand the base. In which philosophy is the study of nature of the mind, in which in the book Quantum Weirdness it states that neurobiology could explain the way the brain works and how it thinks.
2) What is eliminative materialism? Provide three examples of it.
In your videos Eliminative Materialism: Part 1 & 2 & 3 was that the best way to challenge the topic of consciousness was the process of eliminative materialism in which scientist believed that if the theory was not able to solved mathematically then turned to physics and if not chemistry then to biology and then to sociology. One example as stated above would be to attempt various subjects before giving up on a question such as mathematics or biology. Another example would be “The Death of Thor” in which it states that evolution has occurred and that everything in the past has already been advanced and outdated since the olden age. Thus instead of talking about Thor the thunder god, we talked about electromagnetic fields that would cause storms. People believed in gods and would point to the gods, as evolution occurred some eliminated gods while some didn’t. Lastly, the third example would be intelligent reduction in which overtime eliminative materialism allowed us to change everything except our cells to when we understand our own motivations such as desire, motivation, love, anger, and free will in order to describe our well-being.
Extra Credit:
Einstein vs. Bohr:
In this debate, Einstein did not believe that God had any part of the world of physics where as Bohr believed that it was indeed apart of the world of physics. The real question is “Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be considered Complete?” In Einstein vs Bohr, it stated that in order to judge the success of a physical theory, we might ask ourselves two questions, which were “Is the theory correct?” and “ is the description given by the theory complete?” In order to validate the theory it must be judged by the level of agreements between the conclusions of the theory and human experience, in which this provides us the conclusions about realism and in physics it takes the procedure of trial and measurement. It also states that in the quantum mechanics there are two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, in which are the know of one prevents the information of the other. Then either one “the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete” or two “these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality.” In quantum mechanic it is usually assumed that the wave function does not contain a complete description of the physical reality of the system in the state to which it corresponds (Einstein vs Bohr page 4) In which they later they provided evidence that the wave function does not provide a comprehensive account of the physical reality, but they do believe that a theory as such is possible.
Bohr vs Einstein:
In this debate, it states that in a recent article with Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen have obtainable disagreements, which lead them to answer the question pessimistically. Bohr then states “I shall therefore in somewhat greater detail a general viewpoint, conveniently termed “complementarity,” which I have indicated on various previous occasions, and from which quantum mechanics within its scope would appear as a completely rational description of physical phenomena, such as we meet in atomic processes. “ (Bohr Page 3) Bohr stated that it is a well-known feature of the current formalism of quantum mechanics that it is certainly not likely, in the account of the state of a mechanical system, to attach definite values to both of two canonically connect the variable, thus they believe this formalism to be imperfect, and prompt the belief that a more suitable theory can be developed. In Bohr’s conclusion he states that he would like to the overall relativeness theory of the quantum theory. He then concludes with “between the objects of measurements and all instruments defining the space-time system of reference, which in quantum theory confronts us with the situation characterized by the notion of complementarity.” (Bohr Page 10)
Extra Credit:
Replied to Natalie Winokur's essay question "Why is understanding physics and the general rules of the universe so important in doing philosophy?" on May 4