redmaverick

I would say that the human reason has limits. Like Kant, I would say this world consists of a phenomenal part and a Noumenon part. Or like Arthur Schopenhauer, the world is a combination of Will and representation.

hmmm......the experiment is a fact! This may be valid sub-atomic research, but does this really affect interpersonal relationships, human nature, or the rights of man? If not, I say it doesn't come close to removing a single brick in the wall that's objectivist reasoning.. but the thing is that reasoning cannot lead you everywhere.... reasoning told us that the earth was flat a few hundred years ago......now better reasoning tells us that the earth is not flat in other words.....we had one view of reality in the past and another view of reality today....and a few hundred years from now reasoning will lead us into another version of reality of the earth and the universe which is a modification of our present perceptions..... but we know that the reality is one and the same..it cannot be two or more different things....therefore saying "Man's reason is fully competent to know the facts of reality" is fundamentally flawed...

I was not clear. Observing the path the electron takes through the slit is optional. Not the wall where the pattern emerges.

nope, the act of measuring changes the outcome of the experiment. Not simply the presence of a object.

*** Mod's note: merged with earlier topic. sN *** Objectivism holds that reality exists independent of consciousness; that individual persons are in contact with this reality through sensory perception; that human beings can gain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive and deductive logic; that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or rational self-interest; that the only social system consistent with this morality is full respect for individual rights, embodied in pure laissez faire capitalism; and that the role of art in human life is to transform man's widest metaphysical ideas, by selective reproduction of reality, into a physical form—a work of art—that he can comprehend and to which he can respond emotionally. source:wikipedia Quantum version of the Young's double slit experiment has shown the exact opposite to be true. There are two slits and electrons are bombarded through the slits. If there is no observer, then interference pattern emerges. But if you place a measuring device/detector, interference pattern disappears and two solid lines appear. The mere act of observing the experiment changes the outcome of the experiment!