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In the realist interpretation, even without people, you wind up in entangled states after measurement of a spin (where by "measurement" I mean: allow a giant cl
by evanb 10y ago
In the realist interpretation, even without people, you wind up in entangled states after measurement of a spin (where by "measurement" I mean: allow a giant classical system to interact with a spin and tilt a pointer on some gauge to / wind up with some register holding + or -). It's perfectly possible to formulate the realist ideas without any consciousness or insistence that the measurements register in a brain or observer.
- gpsx 10y agoYes, I agree you can formulate the realist ideas, because the observer is nothing special at all. And I also think this is how the world works. But from an experimental verification point of view I think you really need a model for what the brain does to say you understand how a measurement is made. What is a theory without verification? Granted his quote used the word formulate, but I interpret the comment as referring to not just writing some rules but also having some justification for them.