On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 01:53:14PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > But why are self-aware subparts necessarily classical? That's was > my question that started this thread. Why can't there be a > self-aware subpart that is aware of the wave-functions projection > onto other bases in which it is not even approximately diagonal? > > Brent >
This is an important question, but will probably require a better understanding of consciousness before we have a satisfactory answer. It is essentially equivalent to asking why I make the "PROJECTION" postulate in my book. It is plausible that this is inherent in COMP. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
