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> I believe our consciousness is an electromagnetic field Well, this is almost certainly true in some very vague sense - I mean, it seems much more unlikely to
by tsimionescu 1y ago
> I believe our consciousness is an electromagnetic field
Well, this is almost certainly true in some very vague sense - I mean, it seems much more unlikely to meaningfully categorize it as a gravitational phenomenon, or a strong interaction phenomenon or a weak interaction phenomenon. Though it would be cool if somehow it turned out our minds had color charge.
Of course, this is only the same sense in which Linux and McDonalds and potatoes are also electromagnetic fields, or phenomena related to it.
- markhahn 1y agoI think sometimes people forget that when we think of "chemistry", we're talking about an approximation based on behavior that ultimately emerges from quantum effects. It's just that you don't often need to model the full wavefunction to talk about an iron atom's ionization state in that cuvette where you're testing your pool water. We don't see a lot of macro-scale quantum weirdness because big and warm directly implies vast amounts of interaction - decoherence.
- tsimionescu 1y agoNote that decoherence is only part of the answer. It explains why we don't see constructive interference, but it doesn't explain other effects that are missing from the classical world, such as why all classical objects have definite properties in the same measurment basis.