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"Your" mind and "my" mind are not discrete entities, under the description of quantum systems.[0][1]. When you measure the fluorescence lifetime of ruby, f
by thenerdfiles 13y ago
"Your" mind and "my" mind are not discrete entities, under the description of quantum systems.[0][1].
When you measure the fluorescence lifetime of ruby, for
instance, you only measure the presence of emitted photons
on a quantum physical way, which implies the collapse of
the system’s quantum state, but you measure the time at
which the photodetector gets activated by simultaneously
reading a clock in a classical way. That is a very strange
feature of the quantum/classical dichotomy of the
Copenhagen interpretation, and it leaves one very basic
question completely open: There is no way to predict
quantum physically when the quantum measurement
process and the collapse of the quantum state will take place,
or even to find out the time distribution of the measurement
process in a statistical way. The Copenhagen interpretation
only defines the statistical distribution of the possible
measurement results assuming a measurement is being
performed at a given time, but doesn’t tell anything about the
conditions under which a quantum measurement will actually
happen – basically because measuring is considered as an act
taking place in the classical world, which escapes quantum
physical description.[2]
[0]: "You and I". Sebastian Rödl. Universität Basel. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47805860/Articles/Roedl_youandI.pdf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47805860/Articles/Roedl_...
[1]: "Quantum". Aha Hah. https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/#xl6a68x/NLd6c9 https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/#xl6a68x/NLd6c9
[2]: "Quantum Ethics". Sébastien Fauvel. https://github.com/quantum-ethics/quantum-ethics https://github.com/quantum-ethics/quantum-ethics