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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"
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Richard Feynman (Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics,
1948) offered yet another interpretation of Quantum Theory: he assumed that all
possible states allowed by a wave function exist at any moment. In other words, he took Schroedingers equation to the letter. The
state that is revealed by measurement is merely the state which represents the
path of least action for the particle relative to the observer. But the
particle is in every place allowed by its wave function. An observation does
not reveal reality: an observation is an interaction between the observer and
the observed system, and the observation simply reveals that: the interaction
between the observer and the observed system. In a sense, the observer
invents the particle. The particle per se does not exist (or, better, it is
merely a field). What exists is a range of values, or, better, a set of ranges
of values, which our observations translate into values for attributes of a
particle. Back to the beginning of the chapter "The New Physics" | Back to the index of all chapters |
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