Re:You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entang...
by resource0x on Monday February 05, 2018 @08:12AM
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> That is, there isn't any "special sauce"
Well, this is a big claim. In fact, no one knows. My premise is that there is special sauce, but we know nothing about it at the moment. In any case, it's just my word against your word :)
Re:You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entang...
by GolDDranks on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:52AM
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To elaborate: I don't claim to know if there is or isn't anything like that and I'm not interested of arguing about that here.
What I am saying is that if a phenomenon is explainable with less "special casing", we should buy into that explanation rather than a more complicated one. Quantum physics is explainable without the concept of sentience; it's just ABC's of philosophy of science that we shouldn't try to include anything more into our theory than is needed.
Re:You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entang...
by resource0x on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @11:41PM
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I don't feel qualified to judge whether it's explainable or not. But 2 guys familiar with the matter believe it is not :) Not that I appeal to authority, it's just to demonstrate that the jury is still out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_int...
However, I have the premise here that sentient systems are fundamentally similar to non-sentient systems. That is, there isn't any "special sauce" – such as soul or midi-chlorians – that causes sentient systems behave differently on micro-physical level. Instead, sentience is an emergent property, that shouldn't have effect in "low-level" details of how the universe works. This comes basically back to Occam's razor, like the other comment said.