Mind/matter duality

[little_monkey]

I was just answering apophenia who was aking a specific question on QM.

I don't mind at all. The bits of pop physics that I've read about entanglement, indeterminacy, the nature of light, etc. has a lot to do with my views. I suspect that everywhere we look from now on, we're going to end up in a maze of dead ends, ambiguities and apparent dualities that are unresolvable. But I kind of wonder as we collect enough of these if a kind of super-pattern might emerge out of them-- a kind of science of the unknowable.

If you are really interested in those things, my best suggestion is for you to study that stuff. It's only when you work with formulas and doing the actual calculations that you get a sense of what these concepts mean. That's what I do on my blog. For instance the Einstein's Derivation of the Famous Equation, E=mc2 , I've shown how Einstein derived his conclusions from the calculations of the energy from two observers: one at rest, the other in motion. That they would calculate different values, and since energy is conserved, the only way to reconcile these two values is to conclude e = mc^2. The idea of looking from two different POV's - one at rest, the other moving - was just brilliant. Who would have thought!? No one, except Einstein. And then he knew for the first time that one could actually convert matter into energy and vice-versa, no one had ever thought this could really be done, except in science fiction.