... Hmm. This is not a quantum phenomenon, so it does not cause a split. There is only one possible outcome, and that is determined by classical physics. If...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Aug 2, 2000 2:56 pm
... My point is that the world I inhabit is not resolved until that evidence is uncovered. Until then, I live in a superposition of the two states. The same is...
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Jussi Kantola
Jussi.Kantola@...
Aug 2, 2000 3:00 pm
... Every physical process is, to the best of our current knowledge, quantum mechanical by nature. A macroscopic physical process with two possible outcomes...
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Robin Green
greenrd@...
Aug 2, 2000 5:14 pm
... It can also be _better_ than quantum theory in terms of explaining what we see, and in terms of concrete predictions, as David pointed out in FOR. ... ...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Aug 3, 2000 2:29 am
... I depart slightly from you on this. The "splitting" is not a physical process, it is part of the interpretation, which is why I call it a psychological...
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Bacon, Michael
mbacon@...
Aug 3, 2000 2:52 am
Russell Standish wrote: "The "splitting" is not a physical process, it is part of the interpretation, which is why I call it a psychological process. Not that ...
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Jussi Salmi
jussalmi@...
Aug 3, 2000 12:04 pm
... Well, I still fail to see, how the choice of the colour involves splitting. I thought splitting only happens, when a superposition is observed and...
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Jussi Salmi
jussalmi@...
Aug 3, 2000 1:56 pm
... But when you for example toss a coin, isn't it a deterministic process? With only one possible outcome? Doesn't the split happen somewhere else, than in...
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Jussi Kantola
Jussi.Kantola@...
Aug 3, 2000 10:27 pm
... In the multiverse (the physical reality), it is a deterministic process with two possible outcomes. In any single universe it is, generally, an...
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Jussi.Kantola@...
Aug 3, 2000 10:28 pm
Here are some issues about the nature of time/multiverse that I can't seem to decide what to think of, and would welcome some advice on. The snapshots are the...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Aug 3, 2000 10:32 pm
... I don't follow the point you're trying to make. When a single photon passes through the apparatus, the outcome is a single point where the photon lands on...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Aug 3, 2000 10:32 pm
... Was it? How could you be so sure? Colours of animals are usually decided by the fine scale structure of the skin, scales, feathers, whatever, by...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Aug 3, 2000 10:33 pm
By Turing principle, I assume you mean the Church-Turing thesis. The argument goes something like this: The Turing machine is a model of how humans compute...
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Damien Broderick
d.broderick@...
Aug 4, 2000 2:50 am
... The following book might have been discussed here previously; I post the following chunk of a dumbed-down newspaper review I published in February for what...
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Jussi Salmi
jussalmi@...
Aug 4, 2000 12:01 pm
... I wouldn't say, that the outcomes are equally probable. When I throw a coin, the factors that determine the outcome are the surface that the coin lands on...
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Jussi Kantola
Jussi.Kantola@...
Aug 4, 2000 12:01 pm
... The point is that even the lone photon lands on a position that verifies the existence of single-particle interference, and therefore the fact that the...
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Jussi Kantola
Jussi.Kantola@...
Aug 4, 2000 12:01 pm
... It is deterministic in the multiverse. The wave equation is deterministic. ... Interesting! While I have been reading your posts about the psychological...
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Stephen Paul King
stephenk1@...
Aug 4, 2000 3:36 pm
Hi Friends, I have a few questions concerning the notion of "snapshots". ... Would not the snapshots represent distinct (quantum mechanical?) states? Could we...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Aug 5, 2000 2:14 am
... In the case of the lone particle traveling through both slits, the Universe is not split. It remains a superposition of the universes where the particles...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Aug 5, 2000 2:42 am
... That may be, however the details of the fine scale structure on the hide of a T. Rex is not determined by the SE. ... Its nothing of the sort. The CI has a...
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Gary S. Bekkum
gbekkum@...
Aug 5, 2000 5:59 pm
... I think that it is important to distinguish between psychological superposition of "conscious states" (i.e. self perceived binding of all the events...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Aug 6, 2000 11:53 am
... I really didn't understand anything of what you said. I would like to (even if I eventually disagree with you). What do you mean by "psychological...
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Gary S. Bekkum
gbekkum@...
Aug 6, 2000 11:11 pm
Russell Standish wrote: [Gary previously] ... [Russell] ... Quite simply a "psychological superposition" is the perception of having "free will", or the...
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Robin Green
greenrd@...
Aug 6, 2000 11:12 pm
... This, at least, seems intuitively plausible - since, for example, none of the known laws of physics involves non-computable functions - and also it is hard...
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Bacon, Michael
mbacon@...
Aug 7, 2000 1:43 am
Exactly ... From: Jussi Kantola [mailto:Jussi.Kantola@...] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 7:24 PM To: Fabric-of-Reality@egroups.com Subject: Re: quantum...
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Bacon, Michael
mbacon@...
Aug 7, 2000 1:44 am
David's and Patrick Hayden's recent paper "Information Flow in Entangled Quantum Systems" dispels the myth of non-locality and shows how quantum information is...
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Aug 7, 2000 12:21 pm
... I guess I'm being a tad sloppy. What I'm meaning was that all descriptions can be represented by a bitstring, and hence manipulated on a computer....
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Russell Standish
R.Standish@...
Aug 7, 2000 12:22 pm
I think we're just talking past each other. I shall intersperse comment where relevant. ... I don't see a difference between your "psychological superposition"...
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Gary S. Bekkum
gbekkum@...
Aug 8, 2000 2:59 am
... Well I think that we both agree that any "psychological superposition" is represented by some configuration of states in the brain. The question is...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Aug 8, 2000 12:17 pm
Gary S. Bekkum wrote ... Thank you for refering us to this nice paper. (I communicate also the reference to the everything list where people could be...
