> On 9 Oct 2019, at 08:28, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 10/8/2019 9:20 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: >> I've argued this before, but it's worth stating again. It's a >> misintepretation of superposition to claim that a system described by it, is >> in all the component states simultaneously. As is easily seen in ordinary >> vector space, an arbitrary vector has an uncountable number of different >> representations. Thus, to claim it is in some specific set of component >> states simultaneously, makes no sense. Thus evaporates a key "mystery" of >> quantum theory, inclusive of S's cat and Everett's many worlds. AG > > No. It changes the problem to the question of why there are preferred bases.
There are no preferred base. Or, if you prefer, such base are chosen by the entities which can be conscious, or compute, relatively to such base. Then there are some explanation why such bases favour the position observable, like the analysis by Zurek of decoherence. Bruno > > Brent > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/cf6bbc54-7f4c-8b94-939f-ec49e03e9343%40verizon.net. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/106EBD0B-D14B-4257-BE44-E76FD2901218%40ulb.ac.be.
