"The world consists of nothing but objective particles in fields of force..."?

Question

One ontological position holds that "the world consists of nothing but objective particles in fields of force...but our current knowledge of physics makes [this] position seem increasingly unlikely." (From a Wikipedia article on John Searle.)

Can someone summarize any of the current knowledge that this refers to?

Answer 1

the classical physics holds the materialist stand, but in modern physics the factor of consciousness is introduced as important in determining objective measures. like the position of the observer in measuring either the speed or the position of an electron, in quantum mechanics, or the speed of the observer in measuring speeds, in relativity. so this increasing role of the observer, who used to watch the world from behind a thick glass, is changed, more with the rising of linguistic and social factors, with wittgenstein and thomas kuhn. so some are using the to fight materialism in science in order to reestablish some dualism of matter and spirit, idiots like karl popper, not that i'm materialist in the common notion. some are more shy like john searl

Answer 2

Well, that is a fine answer, but does it really mean anything?

On a quantum level, science has shown that we cannot know a particles 100% speed and direction at the same time. Thus we can know it's speed but then it's direction can be anywhere. This means that a particle only has a probability of existence within the fields of force, so it is not exactly objective.

Although on a quantum level things may be appearing anywhere, large things that you experience have so many quantum particles that it is (nearly) impossible for one thing to here and then suddenly be somewhere else.

On a gigantic scale, space and time must contract so that the speed of light remains constant to all observers. So once again, space is not objective but subjective on a gigantic scale. When things around you are going at speeds that you are familiar, the amount of contraction is too small to measure, which is why it is possible to be penalized for being late to class.