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Thank you for the replies in this thread! I'll check the various sources you've recommended, although it will probably take me a while haha I also wanted to clarify that I'm aware that the laws of physics are not emergent in the same sense as social structures and dynamics are. When I mentioned...

Thank you for the recommendation, I'll look into it! Also, I checked Dr. Fatima- it was a great finding. I really like her videos on science, colonization and other social issues.

Thank you! I'll read this later tonight- I want to pay attention to it. Since I haven't read it yet, I can't say for sure what you mean, but I don't think that most sociologists consider reality a social construct in a strict sense. I think the more valid criticisms to the relationship between...

Oh, that makes sense. Are there any probabilistic no-collapse interpretations? I also have another question about the implications of determinism in quantum: if we interpret quantum physics as inherently deterministic, would that entail that probabilities are only epistemic and that the universe...

Thank you all for engaging with this discussion. I find it very refreshing to see the different approaches to interpretations. It’s taken me a while to read and understand the discussion the best that I can. As a sociologist, I think that it is very interesting to see the shifts and trends in...

Hey, thanks for engaging with the thread! I’m not a physicist, but I’m really enjoying reading the discussion. I just wanted to make a quick comment: I think I understand tour point about how calculations have no causal power, but if calculations and models seem to match the experimental...

Finally, I wanted to ask, is anyone here familiar with Emily Adlam's All-At-Once interpretation? How is it significantly different from a Block Universe view?

Me again. Just felt like writing again to appreciate your patience, and to kind of explain where I was coming from after you've helped me get a better understanding of the differences between theories and the interpretations' arguments. I understand my mistake in thinking that the BU...

You are correct. While my questions were mostly philosophical, it was very enriching for me to read you and others who engaged with me from a scientific perspective. I was having trouble differentiating the difference between the scientific approach and the proposed implications shed by the...

Thank you all for the thorough answers. I know that I'll have to study a lot more math and physics if I want to look further into these issues, but it is very refreshing to get a guiding discussion from experts, especially because a lot of "pop-sci" media likes to overstate the implications and...

Thank you for your clarification! I have the impression that physics is a field in which the math is as important as the experimental data. This being the case, if taking the math literally can lead to understanding the universe as a Block Universe, why is this not treated as a given in a...

Thanks a lot for replying! I believe that the fact thanQM hasn’t provided a satisfactory explanation (in the sense that it is canonically relevant) of what a measurement or a detector are, doesn’t necessarily suggest that the underlying mechanics must be deterministic due to our lack of...

Thanks a lot for your replies! Sorry for the delayed response, work has been quite busy. As Peter said, I didn’t mean to limit the discussion to non-relativistic QM. I read some articles here and there (pop science, you’d call them), and I understand that deterministic interpretations tend to be...

I understand that the world of interpretations of quantum mechanics is very complex, as experimental data hasn't completely falsified the main deterministic interpretations (such as Everett), vs non-deterministc ones, however, I read in online sources that Objective Collapse theories are being...

Thank you for the clarification. I think that part of my confusion comes due to the adamant defense of the block universe concept by some speakers, like Sean Carrol. I’ve read about SR in the last months since I asked this question, and I don’t see why the block universe is treated as a...