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Originally Posted by hazetwostep
i follow you on the whole issue of only being able to see our perception of reality and not reality itself, but what about that means that a unified theory (of our perception of reality) will never be reached? even if it is not actual reality, would that matter if it simply connected the dots of the quantum and macro world to our reality?
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I think it wont be reached because this theory should have to explain also the act of observing, of percieving. It should have to explain the relationship between the matter being observed and the observer. As observation is perception, and perception is consciousness, follow that a theory of everything would have to explain also consciousness. What i doubt any physical theory, today or in any near (or even far) future, would be able to do.
The physics is the study of the things that can be mathematically expressed. Only things that follow numbers and mathematical (or logical) rules can be physically defined and explained. But the quantum mechanics showed that the actual behavior of the particles is ruled by chance, and thus not mathematically describable, what limites greatly the range of knowledge of any physical theory.
For example... take the Schroedinger cat experience. In this experience a cat is in a box with a gun pointing to it, and the gun is fired following the decomposition of a radioactive atom.
All what the physics can say is that there is a probability of the atom decompose during some amount of time, but the actual moment when it will decompose is at chance, and cant be known by any physical theory.
So, the life of the cat depends exclusively of chance... and no amount of physics can change it.