Welcome to my website! My current academic interest focuses primarily on metaphysical philosophy as well as on Future Internet architectures. There is a loose connection between these two topics in my philosophy, as will be explained in the latter chapters of my essay.
The main inspirations for my transcendental philosophy come from Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Karl-Otto Apel and Hermann Cohen. Further notable influences are Fichte, Novalis, Plato, Berkeley, Maimon and Allison.
At the core of my philosophy is transcendental idealism in the two-aspect interpretation, and metaphysical libertarianism. Following Cohen, I consider theoretical philosophy as transcendental logic, which is basically just the scientific method (e.g. Occam’s razor, Hitchens’s razor) together with the requirement to minimise metaphysical assumptions (“Kant’s razor”).
On the physics side, my philosophy would not have been possible without the illuminating books and talks of David Deutsch and Vlatko Vedral.
A note to my fellow physicists: My philosophical essay could easily trigger a more or less pronounced crackpot alarm, but that's only because almost all physicists implicitly assume the philosophical viewpoint of scientific realism. In contrast to this, Kant's transcendental idealism explicitly starts from the assumption that the universe does not exist entirely independent of us. Hence, I consider my explorations to be no more crazy than those of Kant, Schopenhauer and other philosophers of the golden era of German idealism who explored metaphysics. Obviously, new theories have to prove their worth through their explanatory power and experimental evidence, and we'll come to that in the essay too. I'm very open to criticism and welcome any feedback! There are probably still a lot of minor inaccuracies, gaps or mistakes that need to be rectified anyway.
Note: Part 1 has an introductory character, and should help making Kant’s rethinking approach (his “Copernican Revolution”) more understandable for physicists. The philosophical framework is introduced in detail in Part 2. Academic philosophers in a hurry can skip the first five chapters and start with Chapter 6 right away.
Part 1
Chapter 1 - The infinitely far and infinitely small
Chapter 2 - Revisiting the anthropic principle
Chapter 3 - The game of life
Part 2
Chapter 4 - Revisiting the Michelson-Morley-Experiment
Chapter 5 - Revisiting the Double-Slit Experiment and EPR Paradox
Chapter 6 - The Recombination of Physics and Philosophy
Chapter 7 - The art of scientific discovery
Chapter 8 - Quest for the Quantum Brain
Chapter 9 - Physics and Psychology - matter and mind
Chapter 10 - The card game of life
Chapter 11 - Transcendental Science and Transcendental Pragmatics
Chapter 12 - An Internet of the People, by the People, for the People
The Future Internet architecture outlined in Chapter 12 is explored in more detail in this Appendix.
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My modest research output in quantum information theory can be found here, including my PhD Thesis.