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View SchemaBeyond the Physics of Logic: Aspects of Transcendental Materialism or URAM in a Modern View
| Authors | Rainer E. Zimmermann |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0105094 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0105094 |
Abstract
It has been shown at other occasions that recent results of modern physics can be used to shed some more light onto the foundations of the world, provided the actual task of philosophy is being re-interpreted in terms of a theory which is following up the results of science rather than laying the grounds for the latter, contrary to what the original intention of Aristotelian "prima philo- sophia" would imply. As it turns out, the interpretation of the main results of present research dealing with aspects of quantum information theory and quantum gravity, respectively, as well as with self-organized criticality, suffices to re-construct a large class of phenomena not only within the field of physics proper, but also within chemistry, biology, and even the social sciences. We show that questions of ultimate reality and meaning can only be answered within a framework of speculative philosophy which is rooted though in what sceptic philosophy is able to derive from scientific results.
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