On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:15:31PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 19/06/2017 10:23 am, Russell Standish wrote: > >I know Scott wouldn't go as far as me. For me, all such irreversible > >processes are related to conscious entities in some way. Whilst > >agreeing that Geiger counters are unlikely to be conscious, I would > >say that the output of Geiger counter is not actually discrete until > >observed by a conscious experimenter. > > That sounds remarkably like the "many minds" interpretation of > quantum mechanics. This is disfavoured by most scientists because it > leaves the physics of the billions of years before the emergence of > the first "conscious" creature unresolved -- the first consciousness > would cause an almighty collapse on the many minds reading. >
Each consciousness causes "an almighty collapse" in er own mind independently of any other. It's a pure 1p phenomena. There is no collapse at all at the 3p level, nor even decoherence as such. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
