Important point… And also, if you try to specify clearly what “mechanical” means, you’ll probably find that the notion disintegrates. The intuition that reality is “mechanical, ultimately” can’t be made to work as one would like.https://twitter.com/everytstudies/status/976553333606486016 …
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Don't quite agree but I sense this conversation is way too large for the current context (and I need to sleep now). P.s mechanical is meant as "formal, blind, with no meaning or room for interpretation".
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Well… that replaces one vague term with four vague terms (which, also, mean rather different things, to the extent that they’re specific).
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@everytstudies as saying roughly “some people say that because everything is physics, all understanding should be physics-like; but even though reality is physics-like, useful understandings aren’t necessarily physics-like.” Which I basically agree with!3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes -
I agree with it strongly enough to quote-tweet it and say “important!”
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OTOH, I think physics isn’t “mechanical” in any useful sense.
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And, I think there are importantly correct intuitions in the vicinity of “reality is all physics” and “physics has no room for interpretation.” However, it’s damnably difficult to locate exactly what the correct versions are—which leaves room for skepticism that are any.
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The everyday world certainly has lots of room for interpretation, and it is presumably part of “reality,” so if reality is all physics, and physics has no room for interpretation… there’s a contradiction here.
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Some STEM-ish people will bite the bullet and say “Well, this just proves the everyday world is actually meaningless, despite appearances to the contrary,” which is how you get STEM nihilism.
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