Nick_Tarleton comments on Decoherence - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 22 April 2008 06:27:59PM 0 points [-]

Silas, it doesn't interface with our cognitive architecture; our sensory organs don't perceive amplitudes - in fact, AFAIK, nothing can. It happens at a more fundamental level - there are two blobs representing two different photon patterns (e.g.) headed towards your eyes, which interact with the one blob that is the previous state of your eyes and decohere it into two blobs that are your eyes sensing different things, which decoheres your brain... and at this point, I run into the same problem as Larry.