Can knowledge coincide with its object? Can cognition coincide with its subject? Can epistemology coincide with metaphysics? Not in general. Nevertheless, there exists a famous particular case violating the rule of their distinction: that of quantum mechanics. Any quantum entity is our knowledge of it. This is due to the fundamental postulate of quantum mechanics: it studies the system of both quantum entity and macroscopic apparatus only by the readings of the latter.
Thus, quantum mechanics allows of studying the general case in philosophy: the coincidence of epistemology and metaphysics. A few of the most intriguing properties of quantum mechanics contradicting to all other sciences, in which epistemology and metaphysics are categorically distinguished, can be grounded right on that coincidence:
- The so-called Copenhagen interpretation
- Indeterminism and Max Born’s probabilistic interpretation
- The many-worlds interpretation
- The quantum correlations at a distance and the quantum-information interpretation
- The concept of quantum computer
The mathematical model of quantum mechanics, the separable complex Hilbert space being a mathematical structure is able to model the above extraordinary interpretations of quantum mechanics:
- It implies the theorems about the absence of hidden variables in quantum mechanics (Neumann 1932; Kochen and Specker 1968). Thus, it implies furthermore:
- The coincidence of model and reality
- The completeness of quantum mechanics furthermore reconfirmed experimentally (Clauser and Horne 1974; Aspect, Grangier, and Roger 1981; 1982)
- Any wave function can be interpreted as the characteristic function of the probabilistic distribution of a random physical quantity.
- It is the simplest mathematical structure allowing of the unification of discrete motion (sucCan knowledge coincide with its object? Can cognition coincide with its subject? Can epistemology coincide with metaphysics? Not in general. Nevertheless, there exists a famous particular case violating the rule of their distinction: that of quantum mechanics. Any quantum entity is our knowledge of it. This is due to the fundamental postulate of quantum mechanics: it studies the system of both quantum entity and macroscopic apparatus only by the readings of the latter.
Thus, quantum mechanics allows of studying the general case in philosophy: the coincidence of epistemology and metaphysics. A few of the most intriguing properties of quantum mechanics contradicting to all other sciences, in which epistemology and metaphysics are categorically distinguished, can be grounded right on that coincidence:
- The so-called Copenhagen interpretation
- Indeterminism and Max Born’s probabilistic interpretation
- The many-worlds interpretation
- The quantum correlations at a distance and the quantum-information interpretation
- The concept of quantum computer
The mathematical model of quantum mechanics, the separable complex Hilbert space being a mathematical structure is able to model the above extraordinary interpretations of quantum mechanics:
- It implies the theorems about the absence of hidden variables in quantum mechanics (Neumann 1932; Kochen and Specker 1968). Thus, it implies furthermore:
- The coincidence of model and reality
- The completeness of quantum mechanics furthermore reconfirmed experimentally (Clauser and Horne 1974; Aspect, Grangier, and Roger 1981; 1982)
- Any wave function can be interpreted as the characteristic function of the probabilistic distribution of a random physical quantity.
- It is the simplest mathematical structure allowing of the unification of discrete motion (such as a quantum leap) and smooth motion in classical mechanics
- It is that generalization of Peano arithmetic in which any positive integer is substituted by a qubit
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