Hegel among the Quantum Physicists (German Translation)

Moritz Sommer

Hegel among the Quantum Physicists (German Translation)

Moritz Sommer

Abstract

This essay – translated from English into German – develops Slavoj Žižek’s non-punctual re-actualization of the Hegelian dialectics for the philosophical analysis of quantum decoherence. Section 1 and 2 reconstructs Hegel’s critique of the Kantian dichotomy of the categories of understanding vis-á-vis the categories of actuality, and their practical applicability as such. Section 3 applies this to the theory of quantum decoherence and its relation to the ontological transition between quantum physics and classical physics, as well as the mediation of the theoretical language of quantum mechanics and its observational language grounded in ordinary language; this also reflects an aspect of the Lacanian symbolic. Finally, Section 4 interprets the collaps of the Ψ-function as an example for the transition of Determinate Being to Being-for-itself as per Logic of Being. An additional 5^th Section returns to the initial starting point by briefly sketching out the genuinely Kantian aspect in Einstein’s thought.

Keywords

category, Hegel, Kant, quantum decoherence, wave function, wave function collaps

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