Mahler, Guenter and Ellis, George (2008) Plato's Cave Revisited: Science at the Interface. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Scientific exploration and thus our knowledge about the outside world is subject to the conditions of our experience. These conditions are condensed here into an interface model, which, besides being physical, has an additional interface structure not reducible to physics. We suggest that this structure can dynamically be characterized by separate modes, Mi. Their selection and operation presupposes free will and a rudimentary concept of time and space. Based on some analogies with quantum networks it is argued that the "observed" gets "dressed" as a consequence of the observing. Interface-dynamics and system dynamics get inter-woven.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Mahler, Guenter Ellis, George
Keywords:	Partitioning, determinism versus indeterminism, effective description, irreducibility
Subjects:	General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Mahler Guenter
Date Deposited:	24 Jul 2008
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:16
Item ID:	4135
Subjects:	General Issues > Reductionism/Holism Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	2008
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4135

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