Reconciling Realism and Idealism: A New Model of Space Time

摘要

An approach to reconcile realism and idealism—and the ‘mind/body problem’—is proposed, based on examining the direction and key implications of progress in physics. The direction is from tangible ontological ‘objects’ such as particles to less tangible epistemological ‘processes’ and abstract ‘fields.’ Physical realism is associated with local wave-particle fields, and mental idealism with nonlocal wave fields. The concept of levels of space time is proposed to bridge local matter and nonlocal mind toward a rational, logically consistent model of how they causally interact.