EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something to add.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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      6 months ago

      the leading approaches suggest that the wave function doesn’t collapse at all, it just appears to when our brains become entangled with the experiment.

      Aren’t you just moving the point of the wave collapse from the experiment to inside the brain? I mean if the wave function never collapsed, shouldn’t we see all superpositions at once? But instead, the brain seems to collapse to one possibility, i.e. still collapsing the wave function.

        • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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          6 months ago

          Importantly, the super position doesn’t contain a portion for ‘the observer measures both outcomes at the same time’, so there’s no way for us to see all superposition’s at once.

          I feel like here you’re just moving the goal post again, if you’ll excuse the expression :)

          Even if there is no superposition in which an observer sees both outcomes, there must be some point in space and/or time that decides which of the two superpositions we see. Whether that is in the experiment, in the brain or in consciousness or whatever. I mean we only see one superposition, so there must be something that “decides” (randomly as far as we know) which one it is. And that decision is a kind of collapse of the wave function, no?

          I am not a physicist though so this is just me rambling from my limited understanding.

    • doctordevice
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      6 months ago

      I strongly dispute that that’s the leading approach. What interpretation are you even talking about? Many worlds?

      The majority opinion is still Copenhagen, which is consistent with what I wrote. And I’m personally more subscribed to the other most common opinion: “shut up and calculate.” Mathematically, our current model describes reality if the wave function is collapsing at the moment of interaction. Call it a requirement of the math or a Copenhagen interpretation, I don’t really care, but either of those two covers the vast majority of physicists.