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In reply to the discussion: Quantum Physicists and their take on Consciousness [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)98. Theirs must be a wonderful worldview...
...Mermaid and Merman free to roam the seas -- their Reality, perfect for their world, were only there no human beings bent on exploiting it and them to extinction. Remember Hendrix's 1983? Here's an outer style, non-album take from somebody who knows what the song means:
We, on the other hand, have tools to enhance what we see. Like telescopes and cool gear.
Reality is what it is. Everything else is just a model.
EXCERPT...
For example, in Digital Consciousness, everything is information. The offer is then the need to collapse the wave function based on the logic that there is now an existing conscious observer who depends on it. The confirmation is the collapse the decision made from probability space that defines positions, spins, etc. This could also be seen as the next state of the state machine that defines such behavior. The emitter and absorber are both parts of the system, the global consciousness that is all that there is. So, if experimental evidence ultimately demonstrates that PTI is a more accurate interpretation of QM, it will nonetheless still be a model and an approximation. The bottom layer is where the truth is.
-- Some blog on the Net Musings on the Nature of
http://blog.theuniversesolved.com/2015/09/30/comments-on-the-possibilist-transactional-interpretation-of-quantum-mechanics-aka-models-vs-reality/
If we have any sense that counts, an infinite number of possibilities for each possibility...
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Michael Crichton was a genius at making complex ideas easier to understand.
closeupready
Dec 2015
#34
Quantum Conundrum: "Some Aspects of the Universe are Beyond the Reach of Mathematics"
Octafish
Dec 2015
#6
How is that any less of an evolutionary leap than our ability to see color in detail?
kcr
Dec 2015
#87
Individual neurons are not conscious, but the 100 billion in concert make a human brain conscious.nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2015
#46
To me it's like the rancher who's super religious as he's knee deep in blood.
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2015
#41
There's a long tradition of people making fun of things they don't understand.
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2015
#16
And there is a long tradition of elevating things we don't understand to the level of mysticism.
randome
Dec 2015
#48
Some still live in the atomic age. Their brains cannot wrap around the information age.
Rex
Dec 2015
#27
It goes against their need to order everything. Categorize, quantify and qualify everything.
Rex
Dec 2015
#88
The great majority of scientists in related fields would not support the opinion
cpwm17
Dec 2015
#36
I think that consciousness is an emergent property. I do not think that some other consciousness is
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2015
#45
Once upon a time, Chuang Tzu dreamed that he was a butterfly, flying about enjoying itself.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2015
#60