Comments by "Aga" (@aga5109) on "Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes u0026 Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428" video.
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"Subsystems of the Universe figuring out the information to do whatever to survive to thrive to reproduce." How could intentionality be a part of 'the blind forces'? How could telological explanation seem a part of the picture in random realm? Why did complex life, which features go beyond simple evolutionary adaptation, emerge?
"Figuring it out"? Does it mean intelligence? Why does there seem to be an underlying intelligence we connect in some way by very crudely understanding some of its mechanics or more correctly put processes?
To me, a very important point transpires, which is that we operate on limited data we can collect and compute while learning about the reality.
As regards quantum mechanics" to fit the data " rather " to fit the limited data" or " to perceive & interpret the data" through processes of our brain we have no clue about, including lateralised information processing, which influences how we get in touch with reality.
99,95 % of brain processes run unconsciously.
We don't realise how many times the physicists were wrong, including Einstein himself. How many incorrect papers did he write?
Many.
How humble we have to be not to become dogmatic and arrogant with our apprehension of reality.
That also transpires from this conversation.
Very interesting conversation.
It made me think and made me more humble.
Thank you!
I don't agree with naturalism, though. It doesn't explain the amazing richness and complexity of reality.
I don't agree with explaining human conscious and unconscious experiences in reductionist ways.
A physicist neither should make hypothesis about a discipline of science, which is beyond his expertise nor generalise findings of one science to another science he has no clue about.
There is a concept of complementarity when it comes to physics and psychology.
Two levels of description are approximations of reality, and they can be viewed as complementary (Prof. Frank Wilczek, the Nobel price recipient, theoretical physicist).
"Analysis is important, but it has to be reintegrated in synthesis, the context, relationships between phenomena" (Dr.Iain McGilchrist).
Knowledge is based on different data.
We have to ask ourselves which of the data are subjective, which are objective ?
And what processes in our brains govern understanding the data. Equations are made (or modified) to fit the data (to fit the limited data). They are checked against the limited data.
Measured data. What does measurement do to data?
Are they still objective?
If all we can call subjective because of the process of measurement and brain processes (for example, left hemisphere over drive and over dominance) you can call a processs of acquiring knowledge an approximation based on subjective data and limited brain processes.
Adittionally it can be tinted with ideological thinking as bias can be imbeded in cognition and it usually is.
Not only irrationality of ideology but also inevitability of defence mechanisms creating a mental illusion, a mental map of distorted reality.
Subjective data are also produced in introspection, reflection. It is called phenomenology.
They are gathered as a result of reflecting encounters with the reality, the real life not laboratory.
They go beyond the scientific method, measurements, schemas, and models that are typical to the left hemisphere take on the reality.
It has a crude, mechanistic take on it.
Adding the right hemisphere processing and balancing the perception and cognition is still limited understanding but a way more balanced.
The better aproximation of what is there, rather than confabulations and over reasoning ( over reach) of the left hemisphere.
" Confabulation is algorythmic over reasoning from the information that are limited and finite. There is an overlap between this tendency and totalitarian reductionism and over certainty. There is a hypersimplification in that".(Dr.Jordan Peterson).
Also, "totalitarian reductionism" in science.
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