The Old Fisherman's Mistake

Carlo Rovelli (1, 2)

1 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332
2 CPT - E4 Gravité quantique

A number of thorny issues such as the nature of time, free will, the clash of the manifest and scientific images, the possibility of a naturalistic foundation of morality, and perhaps even the possibility of accounting for consciousness in naturalistic terms, seem to me to be plagued by the conceptual confusion nourished by a single fallacy: the old fisherman's mistake.

Domaines: Relativité Générale et Cosmologie Quantique [gr-qc]

Carlo Rovelli. The Old Fisherman's Mistake. Metaphilosophy, 2022, 53 (5), pp.623-631. ⟨10.1111/meta.12589⟩. ⟨hal-03612538⟩