Lorraine Ford
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It is the age of putting a favourable spin on things, not just in politics, but in physics, as this video demonstrates. Via a process of romantic storytelling, the deterministic, objective, and quantum view of the world miraculously morphs into living things.
The spin, the romanticisation, is that suddenly things appear that are using the world for their own purposes. “Harnessing quantum processes” for their own purposes, no less!!
Instead of a ball just rolling down an incline due to laws of nature, the spin we must now put on things is that, in rolling down the incline, a ball is “harnessing” the laws of nature for its (the ball’s) own purposes!!
In fact, the ball and living things are not “harnessing” separately-existing laws of nature including quantum processes, because the ball and living things not separate to the laws of nature including quantum processes.
Once again, physicists try to pretend that they can be different to, separate to, and objective about, the world when they are in fact not different to or separate from the world, and they are not external to the world.