“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, May 19, 2016

The Ontological Interpretation

I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work. It was just while I was being invited to the launch of Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter, and it felt so exhilarating to be upgrading how I thought about things...

So, this is very very interesting. The Standard Model ideology is “There is no quantum world” (Niels Bohr); Bohm's “ontological interpretation” was so called because of the bad rap the word ontology has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down.

But it turns out that this theory is still in effect...possibly more plausible than ever.

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