(September 19, 2016 at 6:01 pm)Whateverist Wrote: But none of those things is neutral. Apparently we are only to grunt indifferently in the general direction of the boxes and leave it at that.
I was simply responding to Benny's contention that the photon doesn't behave "like matter should." As far as grunting at the box, I don't think that's an answer. I believe that every term of reference we think up will be found to be embedded in a theory about the how and the what. No matter how "neutral" we go, we'll never be able to escape the theory dependency of reference. If we ask if it's a cat in the box, we're operating under the theory that cats occupy boxes. If we ask if there's an animal inside, we're operating under the theory that the box is a container for stuff. If we ask if the box is a container for stuff, we're operating under the theory that the box can be other than a container of stuff. No matter how primal we go, we'll always be making assumptions and have a preformed concept of the how and the what of boxes.