Dan3 comments on Decoherence - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 April 2008 06:41AM

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Comment author: Dan3 22 April 2008 03:19:22PM 2 points [-]

I'm just now, belatedly, realizing that this means our linguistic tools for dealing with physical objects are among the big problems with quantum dynamics ... which is interesting. There's been a lot said and done regarding the ubiquity of spatial metaphors in language, which would partially explain why our intuitive grasp of quantum dynamics is ordinarily so poor.