On Monday, November 18, 2019 at 3:48:35 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
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> In using path integrals you arrive a probabilities for various possible
> outcomes. But that's not the end of the science. You also
> observe/measure/experience some particular outcome. And then you compute
> future path integrals starting from the observed state...using the observed
> state implies you went from a state of uncertainty expressed by
> probabilities to a state of certainty regarding the new state....aka using
> knowledge.
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> Brent
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*Knowledge* is something having to do with human brains ("knowing"), and
when they became the "engines" of speaking and writing, then *knowledge*
could be communicated between intelligent beings. (Perhaps other primates
too are *knowledge*-able, but that's debatable.)
Now it seems to me that in the first few billion years at least of the
universe (after the Big Bang) there were no knowledge-able beings, There
hadn't been time for them to evolve anywhere.
But during that time quantum processes (and chemical, and at least
somewhere at some point biological precesses) were going along fine without
any knowledge-able beings exiting, and thus there was no knowledge
changing" -- because there was no knowledge during that time.
So how is knowledge needed as a concept in any way in QM when QM processes
were occurring in the universe fine before knowledge existed?
Whoever put "knowledge: in QM screwed up.
@philipthrift
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