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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Are there any philosophical or other implications to the underlying randomness
« on: 12/06/2023 01:08:07 »
For the purposes of talking physics I take the notion of measurement to be equivalent to "interaction" and the notion of myself (or an experimenter)" observing a system to be equivalent to the "observer" physically interacting with the system.
I understand the observer (eg myself) to have a misleading belief that they exist separate from the system they think they are observing whereas a better understanding would be that they are a physical extension of the system (and vice versa)
So I didn't feel that I had an undue(except unconscious) anthropocentric bias in this regard
I think I understand the difference between the inherent uncertainty of the state of a system vs the "observer effect" (or at least enough to know that these are two distinct phenomena,)
btw I think I may recognize "Ungenauigkeit" from my stilted conversations with Austrian acquaintances where every exchange is peppered with "genau" which seems to mean "exactly" and which we used to feign understanding of what we were hearing from each other.
So "Ungenauigkeit" may mean "inexactitude"?
I understand the observer (eg myself) to have a misleading belief that they exist separate from the system they think they are observing whereas a better understanding would be that they are a physical extension of the system (and vice versa)
So I didn't feel that I had an undue(except unconscious) anthropocentric bias in this regard
I think I understand the difference between the inherent uncertainty of the state of a system vs the "observer effect" (or at least enough to know that these are two distinct phenomena,)
btw I think I may recognize "Ungenauigkeit" from my stilted conversations with Austrian acquaintances where every exchange is peppered with "genau" which seems to mean "exactly" and which we used to feign understanding of what we were hearing from each other.
So "Ungenauigkeit" may mean "inexactitude"?