Response to modnote in thread (from The double slit experiment and Superposition)

[Dalo]

6 minutes ago, Phi for All said:

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Moderator Note

By now it should be obvious that your style of narrowing responses to your claims to only those you understand doesn't make for a productive discussion. Pages and pages of members trying to help you understand explanations you've dismissed because you don't understand them. You stand on your soapbox and declare against the patient help others are trying to give. 

This is a science discussion forum. The discussions are for the purpose of learning. I don't see that happening, and I'll close this down if it doesn't start soon. 

And stop using the excuse that you're not a physicist to reject answers from people who are. That's just trolling.

 

I never used not being a physicist as an excuse. There is a difference between a technical discussion of Physics issues that only physicists can have and follow, and issues that concern physics to which non-physicists as myself can contribute. As I said, I am a philosopher. I cannot change that and pretend I am learning to be a physicist. That is just not the case.

I approach issues in Physics from a philosophical state of mind. For that, I need a minimum of knowledge to know, at in least in broad strokes, what I am talking about.

If you think that philosophers, people in general, need to be experts in Physics before they can participate in this forum, then just say so and I will cease all my contributions.

Edited December 14, 2017 by Dalo

[StringJunky]

3 minutes ago, Dalo said:

...If you think that philosophers, people in general, need to be experts in Physics before they can participate in this forum, then just say so and I will cease all my contributions.

You need a fairly deep understanding of the nuts and bolts of a field to start productively philosophising.

[Dalo]

Just now, StringJunky said:

You need a fairly deep understanding of the nuts and bolts of a field to start productively philosophising.

That is not true. The last thing you need as a philosopher is to get lost in technical details only specialists can understand.

[StringJunky]

1 minute ago, Dalo said:

That is not true. The last thing you need as a philosopher is to get lost in technical details only specialists can understand.

Without  knowledge of the mechanics, as described mathematically, it's just air. One cannot make a meaningful scientific contribution in the 21st century... all the easy stuff has been done.

[Dalo]

Just now, StringJunky said:

Without  knowledge of the mechanics, as described mathematically, it's just air. One cannot make a meaningful scientific contribution in the 21st century... all the easy stuff has been done.

This is a philosophical claim. Physics won't help you defend it.

[geordief]

10 minutes ago, StringJunky said:

productively philosophising

What is that?

Is there an interface(or common ground)  between philosophy and scientific research?

Edited December 14, 2017 by geordief