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So the assumptions are: 1. An agent can analyze another system, even a complex one including other agents, using quantum mechanics 2. This assumption of consi
by Aardwolf 1y ago
So the assumptions are:
1. An agent can analyze another system, even a complex one including other agents, using quantum mechanics
2. This assumption of consistency, that the predictions made by different agents using quantum theory are not contradictory
3. If an agent’s measurement says that the coin toss came up heads, then the opposite fact — that the coin toss came up tails — cannot be simultaneously true.
But isn't everything you measure in quantum mechanics probabilistic? E.g. the article itself gives the example of measuring a polarized photon at 45 degrees giving 50/50 chance of each outcome
So all 3 assumptions have an issue:
1: even if you can analyze it, you're analyzing just probabilistic data anyway.
2: why expect consistency if your results are probabilistic?
3: I thought the whole concept of superposition was both options being simultaneously true
What am I missing here that makes this paradoxical?
- lumost 1y agoAs I recall, the majority of these paradoxes are resolved by the observation that you can't get a free measurement, for one system to measure another - both must interact. So either 1. You Perform some form of strong measurement which is certain to perturb both systems - leading to the collapse of entanglement etc. and various constraints collapsing. 2. You perform a weak measurement which leaves the opposing systems in probabilistic states which must still be consistent. 3. You perform no measurement and each system maintains an internally consistent statistical distribution over possible states. The paradoxes show up when you assume there is a free measurement which does not perturb either system - or only perturbs one system.