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Ideas for Avicenna (Abu Ibn Sina), Georges Rey and Carlo Rovelli

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

20468	Quantum mechanics deals with processes, rather than with things [Rovelli]
	Full Idea: Quantum mechanics teaches us not to think about the world in terms of 'things' which are in this or that state, but in terms of 'processes' instead.
	From: Carlo Rovelli (Reality is Not What it Seems [2014], 04)

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive

20467	Quantum mechanics describes the world entirely as events [Rovelli]
	Full Idea: The world of quantum mechanics is not a world of objects: it is a world of events.
	From: Carlo Rovelli (Reality is Not What it Seems [2014], 04)
	A reaction: I presume a philosopher is allowed to ask what an 'event' is. Since, as Rovelli tells it, time is eliminated from the picture, events seem to be unanalysable primitives.