Comments on the article: ”Is Quantum Reality Analog after All?” by David Tong in Scientific American, December 1, 2012. Kantinomus Verlag, Tübingen, 2023. ISBN: 978-3-911041-08-9. 3 pages. 2,99 Euro.
”If scientific knowledge is merely a hermeneutic of empirical experience (as I argue, as an extension of Kantian epistemology and the Copenhagen School), ”continuous” and ”discrete” are not two ”complementary aspects of reality”, but only two ”complementary paradigms of our faculty of representation”, i.e. two substantially different ”matrices” (grids of interpretation), which we alternatively apply to reality, on the basis of our empirical data, in order to obtain predictions with as small a margin of error as possible.
They give us the illusion that they are part of the very meat of reality, due to their local and temporary success in our empirical experiments. But this is only a ”transcendental illusion”, says Kant.
Reality is neither ”continuous” nor ”discrete”. Depending on how we cut reality and the microscope through which we look, ”physical reality” responds to us ”as if” it were ”continuous” or ”discrete”, and between these two illusions we always choose the one in which the margin of error is smaller. The ”standard model” will necessarily be a compromise between these two ”mathematical paradigms”. If this compromise is impossible, it means that…”
Marcel Chelba – “Is Quantum Reality Analog after All?”, Kantinomus Verlag, 2023
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