quantum mechanics: Kastner\'s brilliant blog (Introduction)

by rekastner , Sunday, July 21, 2013, 00:13 (4145 days ago) @ David Turell

You say "But the requirement for intelligence still exists but now is realized to exist at the level of choosing which potentiality to look at or for."-There is no requirement for intelligence in PTI in order for events to happen, i.e., to be actualized in spacetime. Events can happen just based on the existence of absorbers. Whenever a photon OW from the sun interacts with an absorber in a leaf, a transaction can occur in which a quantum of energy is subtracted from the sun and added to the leaf. No person or intelligence is necessary for this.-If you want to do measurements at the quantum level, then of course you generate offer waves (e.g. via a laser or unstable atom or whatever) and you provide absorbers for the offer waves. That's the only level at which intelligence enters. Absorbers are doing the work of actualizing events.-Of course, since we decide what we'd like to generate and how we configure the absorbers, that determines what kinds of phenomena will be actualized in our experiments. But you don't need consciousness or intellgence for real events to occur in spacetime. That's where TI resolves the condundrum of 'Schrodinger's Cat' and its corrolary, 'Wigner's friend', in which it seems as though 'consciousness' is necessary to collapse the wave function. That's only the case if you overlook absorption, and absorbers are real physical entities that precipitate collapse.-I should add that while 'absorber' appears as a primitive term in Cramer's original work, I provide a rigorous physical definition of 'absorber', in terms of relativistic quantum theory, in my CUP book. There is nothing vague about what an absorber is, although you need the relativistic level to see what's really going on. Nonrelativistic QM is only a limiting case, and is not the whole story.-Glad you liked the music!