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> There are no entanglements any more which link you to that event. Not directly, but the information has spread out from your neurons into the surrounding mat
by aaren 12y ago
> There are no entanglements any more which link you to that event.
Not directly, but the information has spread out from your neurons into the surrounding matter ad nauseum. It's just we can't interpret the information anymore.
The event still happened in your past, you just can't see it through your limited human view of reality.
- throwaway7548 12y agoAnd what if you would move away from that surrounding matter? Or, say launch it away with near light speed, so it would get behind the horizon at some point. How is that situation different from the one in which I've just generated the number and the light cone haven't reached you yet?
- aaren 12y ago> And what if you would move away from that surrounding matter? You can't :) By surrounding matter I meant the rest of your body that isn't neurons, as well as the environment outside your body.
- throwaway7548 12y agoCan't I? What if the state of these poor remaining neurons and the body is scanned, encoded as polarization of a bunch of photons and sent to a receiver far far away? In that case good old environment would definitely end up behind the cosmic horizon.
- aaren 12y agoThen you have implemented teleportation and we have new problems to think about!
- throwaway7548 12y agoOh. Common. No need for any new inventions. Just replace a person [that gets entangled with a particular outcome of a random event (have measured it)] with a simpler organism, say a dog. Or a hamster. Or with a roomba vacuum cleaner ;). Or even with a computer. And we definitely know that a state of a computer can be represented as a bit string encoded on any media. Including polarization of a bunch of photons.
- sfk 12y agoad nauseam