RE: How flexible is the principle of causality?
March 18, 2014 at 9:32 am
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2014 at 9:33 am by Alex K.)
(March 18, 2014 at 9:23 am)tor Wrote: http://www.sociology.org/featured/when-y...eterminism
Ok, so if I read the quotes correctly, he does not think at all that the quantum physics (Copenhagen interpretation?) is deterministic in the conventional sense, they just widen the definition of determinism to include predictions of probabilities, but seem to admit that clockwork-like determinism is out of the window.
But that sounds way too simplistic, as you rightly say, impossibility of prediction in the theory does not reliably tell us that it is impossible in a more complete theory, or that there may be determinism in nature that is simply hidden from our view.
I can but suspect that those are simplified statements for a popular science book, and the discussion in this thread is actually deeper than what can be read from these blurbs.
