On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 3:43:14 PM UTC-6, [email protected] wrote: > > > *I checked the postulates in Feynman's Sums Over Histories (in link > provided by Phil) and I see nothing related to waves, as expected, and thus > nothing about collapse of anything. I would suppose the same applies to > Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics; no waves, no collapse. I suppose you could > say they just produce correct probabilities, and imply nothing about > relative states other than their probabilities (which wave mechanics does), > but certainly nothing about consciousness. To summarize: you're right that > they are "no collapse" theories, but IMO they say nothing about > consciousness. AG* > >> >>
In terms of the path-integral (PI) interpretation [ interesting lecture: https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/videos/path-integral-interpretation-quantum-mechanics ], there is in effect no waves or wave function, just paths, or histories, in the sum-over-histories (SOH) terminology. There is still "decoherence" in the SOH (a single history is ultimately "realized"), but it could be called "selection": a single history is selected from the total ensemble of multiple and interfering histories. E.g. a single point on a screen is "hit" by a photon in the double-slit experiment. - pt -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
