On 07-04-2022 03:05, Bruce Kellett wrote:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 10:52 AM smitra <smi...@zonnet.nl> wrote:
On 07-04-2022 02:30, Bruce Kellett wrote:
The preferred basis is not determined by algorithms -- it is
determined by robustness under decoherence. You can redefine
everything so that your theory is no longer quantum mechanics --
but
that is a fairly pointless exercise.
That's the preferred basis as used in practice. But that's useless
in
this context and it would amount to doing things things backward.
Observers cannot be defined using decoherence. That you do
robustness
under decoherence allows for us as stable observers to exist. So
decoherence explains our existence.
It also explains our ability to make measurements and record results.
To claim that this is not a fundamental account of measurement is just
silly. Nothing is more fundamental than quantum entanglement evidenced
in decoherence.
While entanglement is a phenomenon that exists at the fundamental level,
effective macroscopic concepts can never be fundamental, they have to be
explained using the fundamental microscopic theory in which many
macroscopic concepts do not even exist.
Saibal
Bruce
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