SMRTR Science & EngineeringMay 6, 2026Hacker News

Untangling Entanglement: Does Science Support Physicalism?

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Quantum mechanics is often used to support physicalism — the idea that everything reduces to physical processes — but this assumption doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Phenomena like entanglement and wavefunction collapse resist purely physical explanations, and competing interpretations, including consciousness-based collapse, carry equal philosophical weight without being less scientifically valid.

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