tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post6904562325925376470..comments2023-10-19T15:25:17.139+01:00Comments on Reflections: Quantum Survivalspeakeeziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07847866535535652641noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420417.post-41359789012067559272011-08-13T09:51:56.234+01:002011-08-13T09:51:56.234+01:00First let me say the existence and nature consciou...First let me say the existence and nature consciousness is a huge mystery and may require a fundamental change in our understanding of the universe. However your description of the theory some misunderstandings. I won't go through all of them, partly for time and partly because some of them fall well outside my area of expertise. I should caveat all of what is to follow with this based on a quick read and some knowledge of physics but outside my core areas.<br /><br />First it is an assumption rather than a paradigm that consciousness is a function of brain alone and most scientific disciplines do not even consider it.<br /><br />The big bang does not purport to explain the creation of the universe from nothing. It simple says that the universe was once compressed into a single point. It does not and indeed can not say anything about why that single state existed. There is a lot of speculation and recently some hints that the this question may be addressed scientifically but the current answer is we don't know.<br /><br />The CC was introduced because GR would not allow a static universe and Einstein assumed it must be static. When Hubble showed the universe was expanding it was dropped. Recent evidence that the universe is accelerating has introduced a similar concept known as dark energy. But to the best of my knowledge this is just a place holder for we don't know<br /><br />Kinetic energy is not an illusion in GR. The calculations become much more complex but it is still there.<br /><br />Yours is a very extreme view of the Copenhagen interpretation. A more conventional view would be that the waveform collapses at measurement rather than observation. But again no one really knows.<br /><br />I am not going to try to explore your "solution" partly as I am not convinced you have made a case for a problem and partly as it would require too much effort. As a general point you are swimming in as yet unexplored waters of physics, if you want to bring into the main stream you need to make testable predictionsPerturbSecularnoreply@blogger.com