Quantum weirdness: entanglement across time periods (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, April 20, 2018, 15:18 (2410 days ago) @ dhw

QUOTE: “But there’s still significant work to be done on incorporating temporal nonlocality – not only in object-property discussions, but also in debates over material composition (such as the relation between a lump of clay and the statue it forms), and part-whole relations (such as how a hand relates to a limb, or a limb to a person). For example, the ‘puzzle’ of how parts fit with an overall whole presumes clear-cut spatial boundaries among underlying components, yet spatial nonlocality cautions against this view. Temporal nonlocality further complicates this picture: how does one describe an entity whose constituent parts are not even coexistent?

DAVID's comment: Our universe is grounded in quantum reality. We will stay confused, perhaps as God intended, until we understand it, if we ever can. God must exist in the layer of quantum reality that we can currently only glimpse at across the wall of uncertainty.

dhw:If there really is a different reality out there which includes your God, I doubt if we will ever understand it unless he explains it to us! But what interested me in the above quote was “the puzzle of how parts fit with an overall whole”. This is the question which I think may pave the way to a reconciliation between materialism and dualism. And one day I'll try to tackle it!

Months of promise. Why not now?