Tom_McCabe2 comments on Quantum Explanations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tom_McCabe2 10 April 2008 03:57:31AM 1 point [-]

"The fun part, of course, will be to see how you handle mixed states, where the "map" and the "territory" get scrambled together into a non-uniquely-decomposable linear-algebraic soup..."

I am not a professional quantum physicist, but the suggestion that our thoughts about a quantum process somehow influence the outcome of that process seems to me to be patently absurd. Our thoughts are not somehow separated from the rest of reality; they are made up of the same quarks and leptons that we study in QM experiments. At no point are these quarks and leptons aware of the higher levels of organization within the brain. If there *is* an interaction between you and the QM experiment, it will be on the level of -> , not -> .