tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post5982173722622753446..comments2024-03-28T19:56:42.305-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Sceptical scenarios and Quantum MechanicsAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-48226134587404053702016-10-06T15:17:39.443-05:002016-10-06T15:17:39.443-05:00I share this suspicion. Hydrodynamic models and Bo...I share this suspicion. Hydrodynamic models and Bohmian/deBroglie models at least take for granted that there is actually a world of particles persisting through time and moving in space (an assumption which, if denied, would probably lead to radical skepticism). There are some strange effects that need explaining, and so Bohmians, et al, postulate various explanations within the bounds of that main assumption. <br /><br />However, these other interpretations essentially throw out that assumption, and do so without the caution that a philosopher would normally have. Philosophers fear the Cartesian demon, but scientists are (typically) happily ignorant of that looming threat.<br /><br />Surely, at the very least, a proposal which maintains that assumption should be rationally <i>preferable</i> to any others, all other things (empirical observations, predictions, etc) being equal.Michael Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05279261871735286117noreply@blogger.com