A dialogue between Martin Heidegger and a theoretical physician unveils the striking relationships between the philosophical concept of Being and the experimentally detectable quantum vacuum. We provide an account of long-standing theoretical issues, such Being, Entity, Existence and the unique role of the human Thoughts in the world, and expound their possible physical counterparts.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311705527_Martin_Heidegger_the_Being_and_the_quantistic_vacuum
Preprint Martin Heidegger, the Being and... the quantistic vacuum
Quite interesting this dialogue with a second phase Heidegger. I wonder which ending it would be with the first one...
Dear Rafael,
thanks for your very nice comment!
Indeed, apart from the first-phase Heidegger, there is also to solve the physical location of the second-phase Heidegger's "Nothing"...
I have some ideas... for the next dialogue!
I am looking forward to read it! Please let me know when it is online! Thanks!
No. Heidegger's work has no relation to physics. It is about other aspect of reality (phenomenal experience). Do not make a category mistake!
Alfredo,
I think that this "category mistake" quite interesting because Arturo used the Second Heidegger in this text. If it was the first Heidegger, I can consider your negative (but it has its consequences), but in Second Heidegger, a more holistic and language-seeker one, Arturo had quite initial path of insight.
Best regards
On the other side, Alfredo, if the human thought is the guardian of the Being, in the same way, as clearly explained in my manuscript, the individual observer (quite phenomenalistically) is the only one who may assess the quantum mechanics. Therefore, also the links between the first Heidegger and quantum mechanics are clearly visible!
I would also be a little suspicious of any attempt to draw a hard categorical distinction between physics and phenomenal experience. That's not at all to say I have not heard of this categorical distinction, but I do think it is a premise worth doubting. Perhaps Heidegger becomes relevant then for physics and vice versa physics may become relevant for the phenomenal issues raised by Heidegger. The challenge as I see it is for Heideggerians to make the hypotheses clear enough that their physical entailments are clear for empirical evidence, and this clarity has been the shortcoming in such attempts to draw these linkages to an empirical extent.
Dear Rafael, Arturo and Damian:
Is physics really a theory of everything? I suspect it is not. The theory of everything is Ontology. There are parts of reality, as phenomenal experience, not completely deduced or causally explained by physical theories and principles.
The above statement does not imply that phenomenal experience is not real. It is as real as the chemical elements, but not explained by combinations of chemical elements only.
Both the first and second Heideggers are concerned with phenomenal experience. The "alethea" is the manifestation of reality in the first-person perspective of a language user. The semantics of the language of the language user is the semantics of phenomenal experience. Poetry is needed because we do not have terms for all kinds of phenomenal experiences (e.g., we do not have names for many of the feelings we experience).
I have discussed the reach of a qualitative physics in the chapter linked below.
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