Roger Penrose has also ventured into this area. The Emporer's New Mind is a bit old, but makes the point that the scales at which quantum and graviational theories will need to mesh in a Theory of Everything are also about the same scales where our uncertainty is most about what actually happens in the neuroanatomy of the brain.
--Chris On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:43 PM, SteveW <[email protected]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote: >> >> >> >> Date: 5/19/2006 >> From: tegmark@ >> To: Michael@ >> >> Hi Michael, Thanks for your message and kind words. Alas, I'm too >> swamped by various deadlines right now to respond in detail to your MWI >> questions or accept your intriguing trading offer. As you know, I'm a >> strong supported of Everett's MWI. My opinions are well summarized in >> the two articles at http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/everett.html >> <http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/everett.html> and >> http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/quantum.html >> <http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/quantum.html> . >> >> > I claimed Hugh Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation >> > offers the following advantages over the Copenhagen >> > Interpretation. >> > >> > 1. It more simply and more naturally resolves the >> > paradox of wave-particle duality. >> >> I agree. >> >> > 2. It justifies the anthropic principle. >> >> I agree, but only partially, since Level III adds nothing new over Level >> II - see http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/multiverse.html >> <http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/multiverse.html> >> >> > 4. It automatically generates Feynman's sum-over-histories. >> > The Copenhagen interpretation does not generate >> > Feynman's sum-over-histories. >> > >> > 5. In other interpretations Feynman's sum-over-histories is >> > a mere mathematical quirk, because in these interpretations >> > every path is not really taken. >> >> I don't quite agree here, since many of these histories are far from >> semiclassical "parallel universes". >> >> > 6. It simply explains Schrodinger's Cat paradox. >> >> Certainly. >> >> > 7. It returns Quantum Mechanics to a deterministic theory. >> > God does not play dice. By doing this, it makes >> > Quantum Mechanics more compatible with relativity >> > which along with all other scientific theories are a >> > deterministic theory. >> >> Agreed. >> >> > 8. It eliminates the problem of trying defining what exactly >> > constitutes "measurement." >> >> Agreed. >> >> > 9. It eliminates Von Neumann's boundary problem: where >> > to draw the line between the micro world where Quantum >> > Mechanics works, and the Macro world where it doesn't. >> >> Agreed. >> >> > 10. It eliminates the special place for an observer and >> > human consciousness. >> >> Agreed. >> >> > 11. It restores objective reality to the universe between >> > measurements. >> >> Yes. >> >> > It seems Einstein's main objection with Quantum mechanics >> > had to do with the Copenhagen Interpretation and not the >> > theory itself. >> >> I agree. >> Best wishes, >> ;-) >> >> -------------------------------------- >> Prof. Max Tegmark >> Dept. of Physics, MIT >> >> Hi ED. You see, scientists are biased toward certain philosophical >> conclusions. They just like reductive materialism better. Well, screw them! >> I just like Monistic Idealism better. At least it accords with what I have >> actually experienced in meditation. Reductive materialists try to say that >> quantum effects "wash out" on the macro scale, but there is a good deal of >> new evidence coming in that refutes this. Here is one article: > http://www.journaloftheoretics.com/Articles/2-5/Benford.htm > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are > reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
