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Now that naive realism has been disproven by quantum mechanics, how will this impact our collective paradigm?

  • Note: QM clearly disproves NR via numerous experiments, such as the double slit experiment, quantum erasure experiment, EPR pairs experiment, Stern / Gerlach experiment, Cheshire cat experiment, etc. Also, all surviving interpretations of QM are incompatible with NR. The last vestige of NR in QM was the Bohmian interpretation, which used hidden variables to allow quantum systems to have both a well defined position and momentum simultaneously, however this was shown to be impossible by Bell's inequality. For definitions and background see: Some related issues you might care to consider - or not when answering this question... What role does NR play in the currently dominant paradigm? Now that NR has been disproven, how will science/philosophy react, if at all? How do the findings of quantum physics impact on our understanding of reality? Has there been "cognitive repression" of this issue? If so, then in what ways must our cognitive structures evolve? Are there any examples of possible emerging cognitive structures that may allow us to integrate and articulate the knowledge gleaned from QM? How endemic is NR throughout society? What role does NR play in the common sense paradigm, empirical science and the dominance of classical objectivism? What factors may eventually force us to take the issue of NR seriously? What is non-naive realism and what sort of paradigms do not succumb to NR? How is society likely to respond to these paradigmatic forces? For some background and related issues: This contains an extended quote regarding the historical response of quantum physicists to NR. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=naive+realism http://www.photonics.ethz.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/optics/Courses/QuantumMechanicsForOpticalMaterialsAndDevices/reading01.pdf http://typo3physik.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/zeilinger/philosoph.pdf http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-episprob/ http://www.anandavala.info/article/EmergingParadigm.pdf

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    Naive realism has been refuted pretty consistently by philosophers for at least a few thousand years.  More recently the cognitive and social sciences have done their part to discredit it.  And yet, naive realism is still with us.  I doubt quantum mechanics will do that much to change any of that.

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Quantum mechanics (QM) indeed contradicts naive realism, but there is no consensus yet regarding what QM means (i.e., how to interpret it). So, despite the fact that it has undermined the existing paradigm, there is no paradigm yet that has replaced it. Consequently, there is a crisis of meaning at the foundations of the presently dominant scientific paradigm. How this will ultimately play out is difficult to discern. It may be of relevance to note that the Copernican shift from the geocentric to the heliocentric model of the cosmos is still not reflected in our common terms such as "sun rise" and "sun set." In addition, despite Einstein's theories, people commonly regard space and time as absolute instead of dependent upon the reference frame, and gravity is still commonly considered a force rather than the curvature of space-time. The reason, of course, is that naive realism, despite the fact that it does not hold up to philosophical criticism or scientific advances, remains very useful in the context of everyday life.

Tom McFarlane

None. The reason is that NR is the name we give the paradigm that arises directly out of our immediate senses and hardwired signal processing for those inputs. It is our evolutionary default paradigm and always will be. The only way to supplement it is through education. If you want to peek ahead at modes and models of knowledge for a given population try to figure out what the big question will need answering, and what tools people will have to answer them. Odds are QM will have very little to say about the things people think are important and thus have very little baring on there paradigm

Wilson Westbrook

Our collective paradigm can not be truly collective until a critical mass of individuals in the collective can rightly claim to understand naive realism and quantum mechanics. Since some of the sharpest minds in the field of QM have said that nobody fully understands it, then there can be no paradigm change.

Chadborne Whiting

Reminds me of the story of the six blind men who went with a sight-gifted guide to a zoo, cause they wanted to 'see' an elephant. As Chadborne Whiting says, the collective paradigm cannot change until a critical mass is achieved. And when one looks at the current world population, suddenly things start falling into 'perspective'. From another 'perspective', following the chaos theory, it follows that there need not be a critical mass directly at all... It may change overnight. Anything massively different, which is not normal or not expected is cognitively repressed by science/religion/spirituality/philosophy - fundamentally by the leaders AND the masses, because it challenges their comfort in the existing belief/life structure. Naive realism also gives us quantum physics. That in itself seems a contradiction. And therein also lies the answer.

Umesh Soman

No impact since it is no universal collective paradigm, and quantum mechanics is a confirmation. What common between a believer seeing a divine hand behind every achievement of Nature and a scientist disassembling genes? What paradigm community between a poet, a moralist, a utilitarian, a financier, a peasant? We use a variety of intricate and especially layered paradigms, that we exchange as psychic stuffs to build, each a particular consciousness of the world. The daily miracle is that we managed to understand each other, as education and intellectual maturity are only a result of confrontations with strange and unsettling paradigms (fortunately a pair of blinders called "personal insurance" prevents us from seeing that way, otherwise we would never have dared to leave the uterus).Mutual understanding is not always easy. Eventually the dispute between Einstein and Bohr about quantum physics, is it so different from a couple deep in the throes of divorce? Nobody does it understand the arguments of the other, or no one wants to understand them, because his identity is threatened? Our spirits are assemblies of paradigms, each with a specific flavor, each with its celebrities.Quantum mechanics should pose no problem to our minds since they use a salutary stratification between paradigms describing reality. Nobody will take into account quantum uncertainties at the time to sit in a chair, not even the specialists in these equations. When your kid brings back a bad report card mathematics, you do not try to motivate him by describing the wonders of the standard model, right? This is not the right paradigm. There is no real difficulty in adopting strange theories when they are far from reality, impalpable, connected by an unknown medium. So survive without difficulty magical beliefs, mystical, astrology, oracle, contact with the dead. Better a staggering explanation than meaninglessness, powerlessness before reality.Despite its complexity, thus who is upset by quantum physics after all? Einstein hated it less because it showed a bizarre world view than because it did not coincide with the one he had created.

Jean-Pierre Legros

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