On 17 Oct 2013, at 11:46, Stephen Lin wrote:
A quote I got somewhere: "Understanding that the world is a
Panopticon is the easy part; the hard part is figuring out whether
you're on the inside looking out or the outside looking in."
Anyone have any thoughts? :) Personally, I find it interesting that
quantum physics allows _either_ non-determinism or non-local
determinism, and relativity seems to imply that non-local
determinism, if it exists, can never be proven without violating
causality.
I don't think QM allows non_determinism, nor non_locality. Only
Copenhagen QM does that, but it does not make sense.
Very much a Panopticon: there's plausibly anyone watching and also
plausibly everyone watching, and no way of finding out which.
Furthermore, if physics is always symmetric, then you can't tell if,
in the process of watching, you're actually the one being watched
instead :)
So the question you raised above is solved. But I am not sure that
symmetry entails what you seem to see. What is an observer? If you
assume it is a sort of machine, QM has to be derived from simpler
principle.
Bruno
-Stephen
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