On 5/8/2015 3:48 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
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>.
JKC will demand to know who "we" are?
Brent
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