LS Re: DQ as flux: The Pre-Socratics?


Magnus Berg (MagnusB@DataVis.se)
Thu, 9 Oct 1997 02:21:25 +0100


Hi Squad!

Quite a handful of thoughts in that last post. Thanks Doug!

Doug wrote:
>To answer your question, it appears that the action of the subject
>and/or object observing (attempting to observe) the superposed state
>causes the latch.
>
>I usually think of a quantum observation as something that totally
>consumes the object being observed. The observer only has one
>way of detecting the object and that is by transforming it into its
>internal language. The eye for example transforms photons into
>neural signals and after the observation, the photon is no more.
>
>Maybe it's impossible but I'd like to think that we one day will be
>able to observe a photon without consuming it. Just as we can
>observe a match without setting it on fire. Of course, then we'd
>certainly have another entity that are consumed in this observation.
>
>C'ya
>
> Magnus

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