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I am not an expert in either of these fields, but I wouldn’t dismiss the correlation. Quantum mechanics tackles the problem of the observer. If you put a cat in
by mihaifm 7y ago
I am not an expert in either of these fields, but I wouldn’t dismiss the correlation. Quantum mechanics tackles the problem of the observer. If you put a cat in a box, it’s in an undefined state until someone looks at it. If you send your friend over to check the cat, he sees the cat but to you it’s still in an undefined state. Now the friend comes back and tells you the information about the cat, and suddenly your conciousness has indirectly “resolved” the state of the cat. You can extrapolate this to all events in the universe, basically when your consciousness came into existence you have resolved the entire history of the universe.
- nessus42 7y agoThe "interpretation" that you are using of QM is just one of many proposed interpretations. Specifically, you are referring to an interpretation called the "Von Neumann–Wigner interpretation". It's not an interpretation that I buy into. The only interpretations that really make sense to me are objective collapse theories and the Many Worlds interpretation. For neither of these interpretations does human consciousness cause wave function collapse. If you want to know more about the various interpretations of QM, there's a Wikipedia page on them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mechanics#Many_worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mec... If you'd like to know even more, here's a good book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mechanics-Experience-David-Albert/dp/0674741137/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=philosophy+quantum+mechanics+albert&qid=1569538654&sr=8-2 https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mechanics-Experience-David-Al...