Essay Abstract
The task of this essay is to examine the possible discrepancies between a strictly deterministic description of reality and quantum mechanics with no hidden variables in its interpretational framework. We start this paper by considering some general lines of reasoning about what can be known or not known in principle. Thereafter we analyze certain contradictions which we have obtained from our considerations about what can be known or not known in principle and examine their possible consequences for the framework of a strict determinism as well as for a framework with random events incorporated. We compare these findings with human experience as well as with the limits of logical consistent inferencing. Furthermore some consequences of multiple coexistent finite or even infinite universes are examined. Finally we arrive at the conclusion that for our hitherto most successful scientific theories to be true and consistent, it is necessary to assume the existence of consciousness to be at least as fundamentally necessary as these theories seem to be.
Author Bio
Stefan Weckbach works as a media engineer and administrator at Gustav-von-Schmoller College in Heilbronn, Germany. His main scientific interests are mathematical undecidability, algorithmic information theory, questions concerning consciousness, human free will and logics. Additionally he is interested in various interpretational questions of quantum mechanics.