Deconstructing the Quantum Debate: Toward a Non-Classical Epistemology

TL;DR

This paper advocates for a non-classical epistemology that incorporates the observer into the process of knowledge construction, using quantum debate as a case study to resolve longstanding paradoxes and disagreements in science.

Contribution

It introduces a new non-classical epistemological framework emphasizing the process of construction and observer integration, challenging traditional subject-object paradigms.

Findings

Integrating the observer resolves quantum paradoxes.

A focus on construction process offers new insights into knowledge.

The equilibrium-disequilibrium model aids understanding of epistemological issues.

Abstract

This article focuses on the problem of the authenticity of knowledge. It argues that the failure to integrate the observer into the act of observing is the main source of the disagreements and divisions in contemporary science and scholarship. The article uses the quantum debate as a case study to illustrate this point. It also argues that a truly non-classical epistemology should abandon the traditional subject-object orientation and focus on the very process of construction which creates both the subject and the object. The understanding of this process in terms of the equilibrium between equilibrium and disequilibrium will be critical for such epistemological perspective. The article concludes with some illustrations that show how the new perspective can help resolve the paradoxes which plague contemporary knowledge. Key words: the quantum debate, non-classical epistemology, paradox of observing