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" It's possible that nature doesn't really present the basis for the kind of logic we've been pretending it does all along. Indeed, brutish ideas like “the thing is here or it is not” have hinged upon understanding our macroscopic experience of reality, which appears not to hold at the sufficiently microscopic level. Quantum mechanics, then, makes for a good chance to impress the lesson again: the universe (reality) is not subject to our logic. Our logic is an abstract construct via which we attempt to understand what actually is. "

James A. Lindsay , Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly


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James A. Lindsay quote : It's possible that nature doesn't really present the basis for the kind of logic we've been pretending it does all along. Indeed, brutish ideas like “the thing is here or it is not” have hinged upon understanding our macroscopic experience of reality, which appears not to hold at the sufficiently microscopic level. Quantum mechanics, then, makes for a good chance to impress the lesson again: the universe (reality) is not subject to our logic. Our logic is an abstract construct via which we attempt to understand what actually is.