Potentiality is more than a concept — it is a wave or a point. Such as when an electron produces interference in a double-slit test, the interference consists of wavelengths, but the wavelengths don't consist of anything other than all-potentiality (everywhere the electron could be given the possibilities granted by the circumstances of the experiment). So then, the quantum field isn't made up of anything but potential, and the field itself precedes and underpins even energy.
The different quantum potentialities, which coherently co-exist in quantum reality, are mutually exclusive in the classical reality of our consciousness. A particle cannot be in two places at the same time in classical (material) reality, but it is so in quantum reality. This point is basic to the so-called measurement problem and to our understanding of what underlies our three-dimensional world.
Bell's theorem tells us that either reality is non-local (the external world isn't anything like the material world we experience, because it is not extended in spacetime) or that the material picture is not enough (so we require extra conceptual contraptions like "pilot waves" that connect everything together).
Either view sinks material reality.
Either view sinks material reality.
However, this is telling us something about what "noumenal reality" is not like, just as the theory of evolution seems to suggest that God (a noumenal entity) is not intelligent. It is far easier to make negative claims about noumena than it is to make positive claims. I'm not sure that Quantum Mechanics has told us anything about what noumenal reality is like.
Far too often, just because our natural senses are not capable of processing all the information that is actually involved, and we perceive the outcome as odd, we claim it must somehow be "supernatural." Nothing "supernatural" ever occurs. All things and occurrences are natural, but our perception of them is often lacking sufficient information, so we tag that insufficiency with the label of "god."
Science has taken great strides in explaining the things we do not typically comprehend, but we do seem to have an over-arching imperative desire to comprehend the universe in which we exist, so when we can't, or refuse to, understand the more technical explanation, we revert back to a more primitive explanation, typically involving gods. Its true that education has modified our set-point for our default, but that is culturally based (more uneducated cultures are more inclined to assume the supernatural over the natural when answers aren't readily apparent).
Unfortunately, because the vast majority of people still demand easy answers and gods are the easiest. The typical set-point in Western Cultures is still that of at least "One" god. This is promising, however, since history demonstrates a consistent evolution of thousands of years of consciousness from polytheism to monotheism and hopefully to non-theism.
Unfortunately, because the vast majority of people still demand easy answers and gods are the easiest. The typical set-point in Western Cultures is still that of at least "One" god. This is promising, however, since history demonstrates a consistent evolution of thousands of years of consciousness from polytheism to monotheism and hopefully to non-theism.
Knowledge is probably more like trying to determine when Pi (π) ends or finding the beginning or end of a fractal. As long as we keep trying, we will keep finding more information, but not the total answer. We may never have the full picture is one of the things I think Quantum Mechanics suggests about the universe. [source]
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