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Because it implies that receiving information affects the material world. And communication isn't infallible. What if you kind of hear me and are pretty sure I
by everdev 8y ago
Because it implies that receiving information affects the material world. And communication isn't infallible.
What if you kind of hear me and are pretty sure I said 'positive' but not 100% sure? What if you're 50% sure? What two people are listening and one heard me say 'positive' and one heard 'negative'?
It's hard to imagine a physical process being dependant on something external and near impossible to quantify or measure.
- empath75 8y agoThe general idea is that as long as your particles are not entangled with the system’s particles then from your point of view they remain in a superposition. The conversation simply represents the idea that the causal cone of the observed system is now interacting with the particles of the observer, making them entangled and so ‘collapsing’ the wave function or whatever you want to calm it.
- henriquemaia 8y agoWell, you have Lucretius' clinamen.
- naasking 8y ago> Because it implies that receiving information affects the material world. Information is physical, although I agree that the conversation isn't the important part, it's just a useful metaphor.