On Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 7:48:29 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 9 Oct 2019, at 12:52, Alan Grayson <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 12:28:38 AM UTC-6, Brent 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. >> >> Brent >> > > Who chose Alive and Dead, or Awake and Sleeping for the S. cat? Wasn't it > the observer? Since they had other choices, my claim stands. AG > > > Everett showed explicitly that the relative states, and their relative > statistics does not depend on the choice of the bases. > Something quite similar occur already in arithmetic, with a much general > notion of "base”. > > Bruno > > Arithmetic does not include probability theory. AG
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