Original scientific paper
Husserl’s Reconsideration of the Observation Process and Its Possible Connections with Quantum Mechanics: Supplementation of Informational Foundations of Quantum Theory
Tina Bilban
orcid.org/0000-0001-6500-7869
; Institute Nova revija, Cankarjeva cesta 10b, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
In modern science, established by the scientific revolution in 16th and 17th century, the scientific observation process is understood as a process where the observer directly grasps Nature as the observed and scientific mathematical formulation is understood as a direct description of reality. Husserl criticized this lack of distinction between method and the object of investigation in modern science and emphasized the importance of phenomena in the observation process. A similar approach was used by Bohr in his interpretation of quantum experiments that seemed inexplicable from the modern science point of view. Many contemporary interpretations of quantum mechanics follow Bohr’s opposition to the realism of modern science. Among them is informational foundations of quantum theory (IFQT) that connects parts of his interpretation with the latest quantum experiments, but due to the complexity and individuality of Bohr’s interpretation, its philosophical consistency is mostly lost. In IFQT there is no direct connection between information and the observed. This ambiguous ontic status of information is often criticised, however, it can be solved by supplementation with Husserl’s philosophical understanding of the observation process. If Husserl’s definition of the relationship between the thing and the phenomenon is transmitted to the relationship between the observed and information in IFQT information can be understood as the direct answer to the question about the observed and thereby the observer’s only knowledge about it. This helps to reject the main criticism of IFQT and to additionally support its explanations of quantum phenomena.
Keywords
Edmund Husserl; information; informational foundations of quantum theory; modern science; Niels Bohr; observation process; perception process; phenomenon; quantum mechanics
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111960
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Publication date:
12.12.2013.
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