Juno_Watt comments on Rationality Quotes July 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Juno_Watt 17 July 2013 09:24:52AM *  1 point [-]

The CI as such is minimal in its commitments, and is not committed to the existence (or non existence) of a real wave function. You comment seems to reflect EY;s habit of conflating the CI with Objective Reduction.

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This is about how scientists sleepwalked themselves into a philosophical theory about QM without fully realizing they were doing philosophy at all.

Bohr and Heisenberg were in fact quite self-aware about their philosophical presumptions.