Author Topic: Quantum Mechanics & Our Qualitates Occultae  (Read 474 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Nation of One

  • { }
  • { ∅, { ∅ } }
  • Posts: 4756
  • Life teaches me not to want it.
    • What Now?
Re: Quantum Mechanics & Our Qualitates Occultae
« on: January 20, 2019, 11:01:17 pm »
In the essay Schopenhauer and the Philosophy of Mind (Peter Sjöstedt-H) I linked to in Karnak post, I learned that Erwin Schrödinger, a founder of quantum physics, was an ardent Schopenhauerian.

(From wikipedia) At an early age, Schrödinger was strongly influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer. As a result of his extensive reading of Schopenhauer's works, he became deeply interested throughout his life in colour theory and philosophy. In his lecture "Mind and Matter", he said that "The world extended in space and time is but our representation." This is a repetition of the first words of Schopenhauer's main work.

Back to Peter Sjöstedt-H:

What is Matter?

–        Nothing but force: repulsion, attraction: the cause of change.  [Schopenhauer]

–        (Today: repulsion=electromagnetism; attraction = gravity, electromagnetism, strong & weak nuclear forces)

    And that is repulsion and attraction of other ‘matter’, i.e. force.
        Thus matter is force-on-force.
        And this is causality.
            i.e. matter = force = causality

–        This identification of matter pre-empts Einstein’s matter-energy conflation by almost a century (E=MC2).


What is Force?

–        Schopenhauer makes clear that for materialists, ‘force’ is a qualitates occultae, an occult, secret quality.

    Forces are given as an axiom for explanation rather than something that can be explained.
        i.e. for materialists, a sufficient explanation is a reduction to occult unknown ‘forces’.
            (Furthermore, we only know these distinct forces through induction, and so many more could exist of which we are unaware.)

–        Therefore, even if, per impossibile, consciousness were ‘explained’ by materialism, it would be incomplete:

    The forces would remain as mysterious as the mystery explained thereby!


FURTHER RESEARCH needed: 

1. Schrödinger and Indian Philosophy

2. Notes on Schopenhauer and the Natural Sciences (4 pages by OlafWolkenhauer)

3. Schopenhauer on Space, Time, Causality and Matter: A Physical Re-
examination (Shahen Hacyan)


4. 1 Einstein's reading of Schopenhauer





« Last Edit: January 21, 2019, 11:53:22 am by Kaspar the Jaded »
Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

Gorticide @ Nothing that is so, is so DOT edu

~ Tabak und Kaffee Süchtigen ~