/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15281766
Measurement problem makes perfect sense if you realize that the universe is rational. If the universe wasn't rational then science is doomed anyhow.

There can be no excluded middle. Accept "It From Bit," and collapse is explained by logical necessity.

The added bonus is that dialectical logic can also tell you why there is something observable, the universe, instead of, well, nothing. Pure undifferentiated being is contradictory (Floridi) and contentless (Hegel). Being must sublated nothing, resulting in our world of becoming, the continual passing away of being into non-being.

Now that we have formalization of the dialectical through category theory and a complete QM built up using the same tools, the door is open for demonstrating this necessity.

Also, voluntarist freedom is also contradictory so you're attacking a straw man. Freedom is a state, see pic related.

>>15164622
Realize that the liberal conception of freedom as simply "the ability to choose," isn't true freedom. It is just arbitrariness, which alienates one from the rational/the Logos, which in turn alienates one from everything since the bridge between subjective experience and nature is rationality. That is, we can understand nature because it is rational (does not allow for contradiction) and we possess rationality.

This sort of choice based freedom is a contradiction. Once you make a choice, you have lost your freedom, as you can't make the choice again. It is a freedom that negates itself.

True freedom then evolves following ones true identity. Choosing ones friends and spouse puts obligations on one. It removes choice; so does choosing a vocation. And yet, by making decisions one makes these obligations necessary, and so control over necessity is the freedom we seek.

Absolute freedom then is the free will willing itself, the informed, self-conscious decision towards freedom. This type of freedom is not in conflict with limits or obligations, but emerges from it.

Basically, the liberal ideal of the modern world, embraced by both the modern left and right, is childish and self defeating.

Read pic related, I can't do it justice in 2,000 characters first thing in the morning. The Science of Logic is helpful to understand first, but not necessary.

>>15099462
Totally free will is contradictory. If you can have your cake and eat it too, both go to a party and stay home to read on the same night, move upwards and downwards at the same time, etc. you cannot make choices. Choices imply a choosing between things, but absolute freedom means no choice excludes anything. Absolute freedom entails an absolute constraint on one's ability to select for and against various options. One's actions have no effect, as absolute freedom implies they can always be reversed, and thus absolute freedom is absolute constraint.

This contradiction is only resolved when freedom sublates constraint and our choices begin to have determinate meaning.

Obviously we are not fully free. I can't open my door in Montana and step into a Paris street, or take flight like a bird. But freedom is only possible in such a constrained process.