I live by a river in England. I have a husband and three children and one dog. I edit a website called Five Books.
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I live by a river in England. I have a husband and three children and one dog. I edit a website called Five Books.
Sophie Roell 
Quantum theory is best understood as a form of perspectivism not physicalism.
Nietzsche introduced the idea of perspectivism: in the final analysis, all we really have is a manifold of interlocking perspectives. For example, consider the following toy model. If humans are small finite, represent each possible human perspective by a small non-empty subset of {1,…,n} where n is a large natural number. Then, there are minimal perspectives, but no maximal human perspective. Still, there is an ideal finite perspective which sees everything! If n=infinity, then there is still an ideal infinite perspective which sees everything! (God’s eye-view!) If one accepts the standard quantum logic, then one has a manifold of perspectives which cannot-by Gleason’s Theorem-be embedded into any single perspective! There are now maximal perspectives, but no universal perspective!
Dave
P.S. For details see:
The Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Click to access The_Mathematical_Foundations_of_Quantum_Mechanics.pdf
published as: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00413704
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Dear Ms. Roell,
I was gratified to see my book included among the five best books on Galileo (January 20, 2021), and I appreciate Prof. Paula Findlen’s judgment. However, please note that on your website the title given for my book is incorrect. The website says _On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and the Culture of the Galileo Affair_, instead of _On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair_. Please correct this error. Thank you.
Maurice Finocchiaro
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