Re:Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997)
by lisper on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:42AM
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> I've read it before.
You need to read it again. Because it agrees with everything you say:
> in real QFT there's no duality to solve
> Photons aren't objects in a classical sense. Photons are event probabilities.
> "Entanglement" is a description of how the probabilities interact, not an explanation of why they interact as they do.
Yes, all true.
> if you're going to suggest it's all about "observers" and "minds"
I suggest no such thing.
Re:Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997)
by FeepingCreature on Thursday September 01, 2016 @05:38AM
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Risky for a layman to nitpick, but as I understand it amplitudes aren't probabilities, they just cash out in probabilities on measurement?
As a rule, any attempt to "solve" wave-particle duality is going to be wrong, because in real QFT there's no duality to solve.
Photons aren't objects in a classical sense. Photons are event probabilities.
"Entanglement" is a description of how the probabilities interact, not an explanation of why they interact as they do.
And if you're going to suggest it's all about "observers" and "minds" you need to explain what both of those things are made of in quantum terms. I haven't seen anyone manage to do that yet.