What We Can Know

“Entanglement shows that reality is definitely other than how we had conceived of it. Even if we know all that can be predicted about one object and another object, we still cannot predict everything about the two objects together.”

–Carlo Rovelli in Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

That is partially the basis of Nancy Cartwright’s philosophy. Beware strict determinism, even though physicists bang on about it constantly despite knowing it must be false. They want it to be true; but wanting the universe to be a certain way does not in fact make it so.