komponisto2 comments on The Quantum Arena - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto2 17 April 2008 06:54:39AM 1 point [-]

a function of a real space has uncountable degrees of freedom

Right -- that's exactly the misunderstanding I was addressing in my earlier comment.

An arbitrary function does indeed have uncountable degrees of freedom, but in that context you're notconsidering it as an element of a Hilbert space. (Those degrees of freedom do not correspond to basis vectors.)