On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 09:58:47AM +1200, LizR wrote: > > Plus, assuming no quantum entanglement with the environment is involved in > consciousness (as seems likely given the decoherence times of neurons etc)
I would have thought that the connection between consciousness and the environment is entirely one of entanglement. If the environment is in a state like Σ aᵢ|ψᵢ> and the observer is in a state Σ bᵢ|φᵢ> where an observed property φᵢ corresponds to a physical state of the environment ψᵢ, then the combined environment + observer state is Σ aᵢbᵢ |ψᵢ> ⊗ |φᵢ> But this is just an entangled state between two systems. It just doesn't seem like it because we're only aware of a single |ψᵢ> ⊗ |φᵢ>. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/d/optout.
