On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:14:49PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > The problem with that is that it make mysterious all the > intersubjective agreement we found in naive and pre-quantum physics. > You have the paradox of Wigner's friend. Instead of trying to > explain that directly from the wave function it seems much more > perspicuous to explain decoherence which in turn explains both out > observation and the fact that others agree with our observation and > that there are reliable records of it. >
Intersubjective agreement is not so surprising, as the minds we can communicate with necessarily must have observed the same, or at least consistent information. I know this is skating perilously close to "its all in your mind" and solipsism, but it isn't. What is ultimately mysterious is why observed reality is consistent with us as observers - the occam catastrophe problem, I mention in my book. But this problem is faced by all idealist theories, and the opposing realist theories have different, but rather larger problems. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
