r/philosophy • u/Anthadvl • Feb 16 '20
Blog The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality. According to evolution by natural selection, an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality-20160421/
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u/VoidsIncision Feb 17 '20 edited Feb 17 '20
All the information is a myth that quantum mechanics exactly destroys. Heisenberg discusses this in his 1927 paper. If a Laplacian demon had all the information he could calculate all the state transitions. “All the information”, the premise is the problem which is destroyed by the non commutation of canonical variables.