Complementarity, was Re: the opposite of a great truth

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 17:59:13 MST


Permit me to once again plug Pirsig's "Metaphysics of Quality", with which, whatever its flaws,
he has essayed an interesting take on the Copenhagen Interpretation which is not quite so far out
in the Whooposphere as the item you cite, not to mention Puthoff, Targ, the Dancing Wu Li Masters...
--at least to me. Pirsig's "SODV" paper may be found at http://www.quantonics.com/Pirsigs_SODV.html .

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So it is necessary to get into a closer look at [the] metaphysical system of Complementarity itself.
As almost everyone comments, it is not easy to understand. I have been over the materials dozens of
times and still am not at all sure I have it completely right.
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That alone tells me he's not a crank, even if he's wrong. :)

Damien Broderick wrote:
> Complementarity has been pushed kicking and screaming by New
> Agers and some deconstructors (e.g. Complementarity: Anti-Epistemology After
> Bohr and Derrida, by Arkady Plotnitsky) far beyond the pragmatic limits Bohr
> set (IMO).
>
> Damien Broderick
>
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