Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• žižek, Slavoj

Titel

From Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Reality

Ist Teil von

• Filozofia (Bratislava), 2023-01, Vol.78 (6), p.409-428

Ort / Verlag

Institute of Philosophy SAS, v.v.i

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (Open access)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Throughout the 20th century, quantum mechanics was celebrated as the ultimate proof that modern science is leaving behind deterministic mechanical materialism and admitted that it is dealing with non-material entities; moreover, the notion that our reality takes place through being observed opens up to a subjectivist denial of objective reality. Some quantum scientists themselves claimed that the only way to account for our entire universe is to presuppose a global external observer (i.e., God). The text rejects not only this direct theological solution but also the traditional “realist” stance which secretly relies on a divine dimension (the divine status of natural laws). It proposes a reading of the ontological implications of quantum physics which opens up the way for a consequent materialism, even if, from a traditional reading, this may appear to be an odd materialism without matter.