排序方式: 共有88条查询结果,搜索用时 984 毫秒
11.
William E. Carroll 《Zygon》1998,33(2):271-274
Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, has established a new interdisciplinary program in science and religion. One of the features of this program is an undergraduate major in science and religion that requires substantial course work in at least one of the natural sciences as well as course work in philosophy, religion, and history. As a result of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Cornell College will offer a special course, God and Physics: From Aquinas to Quantum Mechanics (April 1998), and will sponsor an international symposium on creation and contemporary cosmology (April 1999). Opportunities exist for interested scholars to come to Cornell as Templeton Visiting Fellows in order to participate in these activities. 相似文献
12.
Mark Graves 《Theology & Science》2016,14(1):65-77
Stuart Kauffman speculatively proposes a panpsychic interpretation of quantum mechanics, where a cosmic mind makes measurements to change quantum possibilities into classical actuals. However, in response, Charles S. Peirce's understanding of existence simplifies Kauffman's triadic ontology and accounts for an evolving cosmos. Peirce's objective idealism confirms possibility as fundamental to ontological existence, clarifies actuality as specifically related to space-time's extent, and revises Kauffman's broad panpsychism to a narrow but pervasive role for law-like, dispositional tendencies. Theological implications include bridging Arthur Peacocke's Divine Becoming with a neo-Aristotelian, scientifically plausible potential for existence. 相似文献
13.
Hamed Hatami-Marbini 《Philosophical Magazine Letters》2016,96(5):165-174
Random fibre networks have unique mechanical properties and appear as the primary building blocks of many biological and structural materials. Although fibre networks are usually three-dimensional in nature, prior studies have mainly used simplistic two-dimensional models to characterize their properties. The present study creates a 3D strain-based nonaffinity measure and investigates the mechanical behaviour and scaling properties of 3D fibre networks. This measure is used to fully examine the influence of primarily characteristic length scales, i.e. mean segment length and bending length, on nonaffine mechanical behaviour of 3D filamentous networks. It is observed that all nonaffinity measure components exhibit a power-law variation with the probing length scale. Furthermore, it is found that while the degree of nonaffinity in both 2D and 3D systems decreases with increasing the probing length scale, the two power-law scaling regimes previously reported for 2D networks do not appear in 3D. 相似文献
14.
Cord Friebe 《Journal for General Philosophy of Science》2004,35(2):261-281
Dividing, Separating and Unifying. EPR Without Holism. In the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics parts of composed systems are correlated in a non-causal way, they are
ontologically dependent on each other. In this paper I try to defend traditional realism giving a non-holistic interpretation
of the EPR-paradox. An analysis of events in the macroscopic world shows that dividing and unifying objects is quite dif-ferent
from changing (modifying) objects. In application to quantum mechanics I argue that a measurement at a given single-system
changes (modifies) this object, but the EPR-measurement divides the given object. Therefore this given object is an undivided
and dividable One and not a composed system. If parts are produced (by EPR-measurement) correlations do not occur.
Teilen, Trennen und Vereinen: EPR ohne Holismus相似文献
15.
Henry P. Stapp 《Zygon》2006,41(3):599-616
Abstract. René Descartes proposed an interactive dualism that posits an interaction between the mind of a human being and some of the matter in his or her brain. However, the classical physical theories that reigned during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are based exclusively on the material/physical part of Descartes' ontology, and they purport to give, in principle, a completely deterministic account of the physically described properties of nature, expressed exclusively in terms of these physically described properties themselves. Orthodox contemporary physical theory violates this condition in two separate ways. First, it injects random elements into the dynamics. Second, it requires psychophysical events, called Process 1 interventions by John von Neumann. Neither the content nor the timing of these events is determined, even statistically, by any known law. Orthodox quantum mechanics considers these events to be instigated by choices made by conscious agents. This quantum conception of the mind‐brain connection allows many psychological and neuropsychological findings associated with the apparent physical effectiveness of our conscious volitional efforts to be explained in a causal and practically useful way. According to this quantum approach, conscious human beings are invested with degrees of freedom denied to the mechanistic automatons to which classical physics reduced us. 相似文献
16.
Jeffrey Grupp 《Axiomathes》2006,16(3):245-386
Mereological nihilism is the philosophical position that there are no items that have parts. If there are no items with parts
then the only items that exist are partless fundamental particles, such as the true atoms (also called philosophical atoms)
theorized to exist by some ancient philosophers, some contemporary physicists, and some contemporary philosophers. With several
novel arguments I show that mereological nihilism is the correct theory of reality. I will also discuss strong similarities
that mereological nihilism has with empirical results in quantum physics. And I will discuss how mereological nihilism vindicates
a few other theories, such as a very specific theory of philosophical atomism, which I will call quantum abstract atomism.
I will show that mereological nihilism also is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that avoids the problems of other interpretations,
such as the widely known, metaphysically generated, quantum paradoxes of quantum physics, which ironically are typically accepted
as facts about reality. I will also show why it is very surprising that mereological nihilism is not a widely held theory,
and not the premier theory in philosophy. 相似文献
17.
J. Acacio de Barros 《Journal of mathematical psychology》2009,53(5):306-2099
In this paper we discuss the use of quantum mechanics to model psychological experiments, starting by sharply contrasting the need of these models to use quantum mechanical nonlocality instead of contextuality. We argue that contextuality, in the form of quantum interference, is the only relevant quantum feature used. Nonlocality does not play a role in those models. Since contextuality is also present in classical models, we propose that classical systems be used to reproduce the quantum models used. We also discuss how classical interference in the brain may lead to contextual processes, and what neural mechanisms may account for it. 相似文献
18.
The basis of a rigorous formal axiomatization of quantum mechanics is constructed, built upon Dirac's bra–ket notation. The system is three-sorted, with separate variables for scalars, vectors and operators. First-order quantification over all three types of variable is permitted. Economy in the axioms is effected by, e.g., assigning a single logical function * to transform (i) a scalar into its complex conjugate, (ii) a ket vector into a bra and a bra into a ket, (iii) an operator into its adjoint. The system is accompanied by a formal semantics. Further papers will deal with vector subspaces and projection operators, operators with continuous spectra, tensor products, observables, and quantum mechanical probabilities. 相似文献
19.
Steven J. Bartlett 《Argumentation》1988,2(2):221-232
Philosophers have not resisted temptation to transgress against the logic of their own conceptual structures. Self-undermining position-taking is an occupational hazard. Philosophy stands in need of conceptual therapy.The author describes three conceptions of philosophy: the narcissistic, disputatious, and therapeutic. (i) Narcissistic philosophy is hermetic, believing itself to contain all evidence that can possibly be relevant to it. Philosophy undertaken in this spirit has led to defensive, monadically isolated positions. (ii) Disputatious philosophies are fundamentally question-begging, animated by assumptions that philosophical adversaries reject. (iii) The intention of therapeutic philosophy is to study philosophical positions from the standpoint of their internal consistency, or lack of it. In particular, its interest is in positions that either compel assent, because they cannot be rejected without self-referential inconsistency, or self-destruct because self-referential inconsistency cannot be avoided. The article's focus is on the latter. Several examples of self-undermining positions are drawn from the history of philosophy, exemplifying two main varieties of self-referential inconsistency: pragmatical and projective. 相似文献
20.
In this paper we study in details a system of two weakly coupled harmonic oscillators from the point of view of Bohm’s interpretation
of quantum mechanics. This system may be viewed as a simple model for the interaction between a photon and a photodetector.
We obtain exact solutions for the general case. We then compute approximate solutions for the case where one oscillator is
initially in its first excited state (a single photon) reaching the other oscillator in its ground state (the photodetector).
The approximate solutions represent the state of both oscillators after the interaction, which is not an eigenstate of the
individual hamiltonians for each oscillator, and therefore the energies for each oscillator do not exist in the Copenhagen
interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. We use the approximate solutions that we obtained to compute Bohmian trajectories and
to study the energy transfer between the oscillators. We conclude that, even using the Bohmian view, the energy of each individual
oscillator is not well defined, as the nonlocal quantum potential is not negligible even after the coupling is turned off. 相似文献