On 01-Jun-00, Fred Chen wrote: >> An alternative to the mathematics=existence multiverse is that everything >> exists and we have evolved so as to only perceive a rational subset of this >> everything - but evolution isn't perfect; so we sort of perceive wabbits >> that >> are close to the boundary of being consistent. Sort of like QM virtual >> particles that can only exist for small space-time intervals; these wabbits >> could only occur to an observer in a very limited way. >> > > Interesting. What would be the need driving our ability to perceive these > wabbits? > >> Brent Meeker
I didn't think of it as a need, but rather an imperfection in our evolution - after all evolutionary adaption is a rough process and far from efficient. I thought of this in relation to the measurement problem in QM. Under the de-coherence theory of quantum measurement, the wave function doesn't collapse it continues it's unitary development but the interaction with the macroscopic environment causes the density matrix to become practically diagonal. We don't perceive the very complex wave function that still encodes the pre-measurement coherence - even though in principle it's observable. Why? Maybe, because it would not be evolutionarily favorable to perceive these coherences. It would be like seeing wabbits; but not really since these coherent but complex wave functions are part of standard physics. It is more like seeing Schrodingers cat. Brent Meeker
