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Old 1st January 2018, 03:24 PM   #176
baron
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Originally Posted by Myriad View Post
That extends the bolding to "the world as we observe it."

Are we not observing the world and/or "fabricating mental models" using our limited faculties when we do these things:
Yes, of course.

Originally Posted by Myriad View Post
You are clearly implying (whether you mean to or not) that while all other observations and mental models of the world are unreliable and incomplete due to our limited faculties, quantum mechanics is somehow not subject to those same limitations. But you've presented no justification for such a view.
I didn't say our direct observations were unreliable in terms of their limited scope, I said they are unreliable (more accurately, useless) in describing fundamental reality.

Quantum mechanical processes cannot be directly observed by humans, only their aggregates, and those tell us nothing about the fundamentals.
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