A Phenomenological Ontology for Physics: Merleau-Ponty and QBism
@inproceedings{Bitbol2020APO, title={A Phenomenological Ontology for Physics: Merleau-Ponty and QBism}, author={Michel Bitbol}, year={2020} }
Few researchers of the past made sense of the collapse of representations in the quantum domain, and looked for a new process of sense-making below the level of representations: the level of the phenomenology of perception and action; the level of the elaboration of knowledge out of experience. But some recent philosophical readings of quantum physics all point in this direction. They all recognize the fact that the quantum revolution is a revolution in our conception of knowledge.
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