From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 10:20:29 MST
Steve,
> someone could tell me why a seeming observation
> of dual occupation of "space" might not
> really be a blur caused by dual / persistent
> occupation of different points in time?
No.
But if you read this (below) you can realize how
difficult is not to establish a morphism between
QM and 'mind' [ok J.R.M.! I should say 'brain']
but to test (or confirm) something.
------
Andrei Khrennikov [not a crackpot!]
'On the cognitive experiments to test
quantum-like behaviour of mind'
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0205092
We describe cognitive experiments (based on interference of probabilities
for mental observables) that could verify quantum-like structure of mental
measurements. In principle, such experiments could be performed in
psychology, cognitive and social sciences. Recently one of such experiments
(described in the previous version of the preprint) based on recognition of
images was performed. It confirms our prediction on quantum-like behaviour
of mind.
------
Look, in a very general sense you are right.
There is no other (i.e. classical) physics.
There is just quantum physics. And quantum
physics means (mainly) 'superposition', 'interference'
(different from the usual interference we have
in strings, branes, etc.), and all that.
It is already hard to understand how a particle
(whatever it is) is not 'here' *or* 'there',
and is not 'here' *and* 'there', either.
And it is already difficult to understand
how a quantum event is not 'now' *or* 'then',
and it is not 'now' *and* 'then', either.
Actually many are suggesting that quantum events
can be out of space, out of time, and they live
in a special, proper world, let us say in some
actualization, or reification of the
Hilbert/Fock space, see in example
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0212078
But this is not new. Something similar
wrote also Y. Ne'eman many years ago:
'Can EPR Non-Locality Be Geometrical?'.
And it is even more difficult to explain
a superposition in the mesoscopic, or in
the macro world.
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