Tom_McCabe2 comments on Quantum Explanations - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 April 2008 08:15AM

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Comment author: Tom_McCabe2 10 April 2008 04:02:43AM 1 point [-]

My apologies for the earlier formatting error. Basically, objects on one level of organization (fundamental particles) should only interact in any significant sense with objects on the same level, not with mental representations of fundamental particles or macroscopic blocks of matter. There *are* exceptions to this (eg, an errant lepton causes quantum physicists to jump for joy), but they require some sort of complex mechanism (in the Kolmogorov sense) to carry information into a different organizational level.