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Double Slit Mass confusion?
#22439822 - 10/27/15 11:27 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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It seems like there is a MASSIVE debate on whether it is consciousness that affects the states in the double slit experiment or its the act of looking at something that causes a collapse because it sends information like a photon to disrupt the state and has nothing to do with consciousness..
Seems like this debate has no answer, modern scientists claim the latter is correct.
but many qualified scientists and well renowned ones believe it is consciousness.
I understand that many scientists did not like the consciousness scenario since it opens them up to ideas like solipsism and believing bullshit like the secret and law of attraction.
I just wonder why so many qualified scientists still cling to the consciousness scenario but the leading ones dismiss it.
ive been fishing on youtube comments for double slit videos for answers and it seems the pot is split between educated people who are giving reasons to assert why its consciousness that collapses the state and just as many are giving reasons why its "something else" and then others are saying none of these commenters for or against has any professional qualifications so its just their own guesses.
from what i can read on shroomery here, the educated ones are against the idea of consciousness being the cause.
just wanted to know your opinion on this confusing as shit topic.
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: SleepyE] 1
#22439848 - 10/27/15 11:32 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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And there are some people who think the double-slit experiment has already been explained.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/when-fluid-dynamics-mimic-quantum-mechanics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory#Double-slit_experiment
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To explain the behavior when the particle is detected to go through one slit, one needs to appreciate the role of the conditional wavefunction and how it results in the collapse of the wavefunction; this is explained below. The basic idea is that the environment registering the detection effectively separates the two wave packets in configuration space.
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To me, the act of observing something is consciousness. If you think about it from a meditative perspective, when you shine a light on your thoughts, you are using your consciousness to become aware of those thoughts. I don't think it's possible to separate consciousness from observation or awareness.
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: PocketLady]
#22440103 - 10/27/15 12:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah, i guess modern science is trying to defuse any woo thinking when it comes to the results of this, i dont understand fully by far so i need to do a lot of reading to jump to my own conclusion.
i just want to know what other scientists concluded from that experiment.
i know einstein was quoted for saying "i like to think the moon is still there even if im not looking at it." that comment seems like hes not too sure about the results either.
seems sketch to me.
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: SleepyE] 2
#22440119 - 10/27/15 12:59 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Everything has consciousness.
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The basic idea is that the environment registering the detection effectively separates the two wave packets in configuration space.
Including the environment.
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: Asante]
#22440154 - 10/27/15 01:08 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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i know people believe consciousness is the last piece of the puzzle in the sciences incomplete theories, Im just trying to educate myself enough to understand why some might think this way.
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: SleepyE]
#22440182 - 10/27/15 01:13 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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and i know some people believe the whole universe as well as time and space is designed for consciousness as a medium to send information to itself, or something along those lines. compared to modern sciences belief that consciousness is just a fluke of the universe and is meaningless and not special and the universe would continue to do its thing even if no-one was aware.
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: Asante]
#22440314 - 10/27/15 01:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Asante said: Everything has consciousness.
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The basic idea is that the environment registering the detection effectively separates the two wave packets in configuration space.
Including the environment.
Well, that's a very sound implication. David Bohm was quoted as saying that the implicate order and the wavefunction are the same thing, the same level. Which really implies that the fundamental fabric of the cosmos must have, to put it conservatively, some consciousness-like attributes. Or you could just say it is in some way conscious. This all goes together.
Regarding the quote, it is somehow implicit that the environmental setup, in order to disturb the wave packets, must be in some form of communication with it. To say the environment is conscious is an imprecise statement, but basically it's saying the same thing.
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so consciousness is profoundly connected to the universe on a level deeper than "i just mixed a bunch of chemical drugs made of matter to produce awareness in materials that are as dead as soup."
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: SleepyE] 1
#22440393 - 10/27/15 01:58 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think so. It is only an opinion, but it all fits together much better than when I was a hardcore materialist years ago. It just makes a lot more sense, and I have a legion of personal experiences to back it up (which I do not wish to go into here). Let me put it this way: there is no way to eliminate consciousness as a variable from quantum theory. John von Neumann pointed out in the 1950s in his treatment on orthodox quantum mechanics (which is used to this day) that consciousness in some form or another is required for an internally consistent formulation of orthodox quantum theory. So, interpret that as you will. I am interested in different forms of the theory that do not require the orthodox treatment, but in relation to the OP, it is quite relevant.
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great! thanks for the information. Obviously my wishful thinking side wants to believe the woo side but i guess that jury is still out on it. thats good. maybe existence might turn out to be more than the meaningless fluke materialist science has made it out to be.
i'll make a deal with reality, if i successfully accomplish my dreams and goals then i'll be a believer of a reality where the secret is real
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: SleepyE] 2
#22440517 - 10/27/15 02:34 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well, I don't know whether you've heard of it, but there is a hard scientific principle in modern physics which is quite "woo" called entanglement. It is rather complicated, but let's take electrons, for example. Every electron exists in a quantum state pairing with another electron, but the two have different spins. (By the Pauli exclusion principle, no two particles can occupy an identical quantum state). But here's the weird part: those two particles, after leaving one another, will have the same spin relationship forever, no matter how far apart they are (even, say, twelve billion light years). That is, one will spin "up" and the other will spin "down" as if they are in some sort of communication. Experiments have been performed and have confirmed this weird result of quantum theory. The communication takes place instantaneously, faster than the speed of light. It is called "nonlocality." A lot of people squawk about this because Relativity, of course, does not allow faster than light communication. But a spin-up/spin-down pair of elections from the same quantum state pairing will always be correlated by some infinitely fast relationship.
I tend to resolve the difficulty for myself by positing that mass-energy (which Relativity deals with) and non-locality are two different levels. So as long as no spacetime laws are broken, entanglement can occur at a level below it, if you will. But this is undoubtedly a very mystical phenomenon which is, ironically, at the heart of modern physics.
Fun stuff.
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haha yeah ive heard of entanglement but my understanding is primitive so i appreciate the information.
I heard they are trying to develop FTL technology based on that principle for communication.
Yeah thats pretty woo alright, i guess thats why it makes the woo conclusion from double slit a little more reasonable.
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: SleepyE]
#22440603 - 10/27/15 02:57 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, I'm pretty skeptical about FTL communication, because it has to involve a signal of some kind, which would of course be on the level of mass-energy, and subject to the laws of Relativity. But maybe someday, who knows?
Physicists would deny that physics implies anything mysterious or mystical, but, look, nonlocality is pretty spooky! The double-slit, as I said, may have been figured out, but maybe not. Either way, your conclusion is probably no worse than anyone else's, so you can confidently hold any opinion you want!
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sweet, im liking those odds
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: SleepyE] 2
#22441896 - 10/27/15 08:14 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: SleepyE]
#22441938 - 10/27/15 08:22 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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SleepyE said: It seems like there is a MASSIVE debate on whether it is consciousness that affects the states in the double slit experiment...
It might seem that way if you frequent mystical forums and listen to non-scientists. Experiments already conclusively show that consciousness is not needed to collapse a wavefuction. Its not debated at all, its just a confused mystics fantasy - they wouldn't know a bra from a ket.
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SleepyE said: haha yeah ive heard of entanglement but my understanding is primitive so i appreciate the information.
I heard they are trying to develop FTL technology based on that principle for communication.
Again, you heard wrong. Nobody is trying to develop FTL communication based on entanglement because it fundamentally doesn't work.
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: DieCommie]
#22442018 - 10/27/15 08:39 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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entanglement is still spooky
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: SleepyE]
#22442030 - 10/27/15 08:41 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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i guess my existence is meaningless and pointless afterall, oh joy
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Re: Double Slit Mass confusion? [Re: SleepyE]
#22442054 - 10/27/15 08:44 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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SleepyE said: entanglement is still spooky 
I can't really deny that. Spooky implies scary and that is what these experiments on the nature of nature are - scary, because they pull the rug out from under our intuitive belief of the way the universe works. Once you abandon your intuitive belief they cease to be spooky and are simply wondrous. That would be my suggestion to you - abandon your intuitive beliefs and let raw nature inform you. Otherwise, you project your beliefs onto nature and then expect that the phenomenon of nature need to be "solved" as though they are a problem... but the only problem all along was your preconceptions.
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