To me, science is bound to explain human experiences by explaining qualities of the objects that form the world (I hope it’s not too far fetched, I just made it up). Some qualities can be observed, even if it takes an LHC, some can’t, at least we don’t have any idea yet how. If then the world splitting can’t be observed at all and all we know is our single resulting world then I guess science’s task is to explain this single world. At least, from inside the single world that may look like the main task of science. I may be wrong, that’s my thoughts right now.
In entangled systems, those systems only keep being entangled because they’re experimentally protected from outside influences. I always understood collapse as a result of special interactions of the wave with the surrounding, particularly interactions which expose particle-like features of the wave-particle. It has nothing to do with distance or size. And I think that can be shown really nice in the double-slit experiment. So right there, there’s no possibility in collapse theory that our brain or consciousness could be the referee of wave collapses. Before it gets to the brain, the wave function obviously has to interact. That’s also an argument against the Earth’s being a wave function. Wave and collapsed wave, in my understanding, explicitly behave differently, so we can’t say it was a wave all along, we just never knew it.
Finally, if you substitute collapse for world splitting, wouldn’t then world splitting produce the same effects and fulfill your last list quite as well as the collapse interpretation?
To me, science is bound to explain human experiences by explaining qualities of the objects that form the world (I hope it’s not too far fetched, I just made it up). Some qualities can be observed, even if it takes an LHC, some can’t, at least we don’t have any idea yet how. If then the world splitting can’t be observed at all and all we know is our single resulting world then I guess science’s task is to explain this single world. At least, from inside the single world that may look like the main task of science. I may be wrong, that’s my thoughts right now.
In entangled systems, those systems only keep being entangled because they’re experimentally protected from outside influences. I always understood collapse as a result of special interactions of the wave with the surrounding, particularly interactions which expose particle-like features of the wave-particle. It has nothing to do with distance or size. And I think that can be shown really nice in the double-slit experiment. So right there, there’s no possibility in collapse theory that our brain or consciousness could be the referee of wave collapses. Before it gets to the brain, the wave function obviously has to interact. That’s also an argument against the Earth’s being a wave function. Wave and collapsed wave, in my understanding, explicitly behave differently, so we can’t say it was a wave all along, we just never knew it.
Finally, if you substitute collapse for world splitting, wouldn’t then world splitting produce the same effects and fulfill your last list quite as well as the collapse interpretation?
Nice series, really like it!