Metaphysics Behind Quantum Mechanics in German Thinking

Discussion

Neofeudal Review:

"L.P. Koch notes that Germany’s development of Quantum Mechanics sprouted from it’s metaphysical understandings; it could not have and would not have existed without them:

Some of the mystic reasoning so prevalent in the German tradition might actually have been fruitful even for the natural sciences: the development of Quantum Mechanics, in particular, can be seen in light of the rebellion of the German soul against the materialist program.

This is precisely what Paul Forman points out in great detail in his 1971 paper, Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927.

He shows that the critical attitude of German physicists in the Weimar Republic regarding causality came before the development of Quantum Mechanics, which, once formulated, of course sparked further debate about causality and determinism. It could be argued that indeed, the German intellectual tradition was the fertile ground on which Quantum Mechanics blossomed. As Forman puts it, German culture “led physicists to ardently hope for, actively search for, and willingly embrace an acausal quantum mechanics.

In other words, a society is always limited by their metaphysical presuppositions, and the modern technical West is no different. ”

(https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/on-the-digital-panopticon-mark-of)