I'm reading a book called the Quantum Society by Danah Zohar and she suggest that quantum physics enters many areas of real life.
She talks a lot about the wave of infinite possibilites (like an infinite shrodinger's cat) collapsing into one possibility. Such as deciding upon one course of action out of many ideas. Composing one particlar melody from the myriad of possible notes and timings. Me writing this particular sentence out of all the things i could have said.
She also suggests that these kinds of wave function collapses happen on other levels like in evolution, where genes show a prediposition to evolve beyond mere chance - as in the work of adaptive biology of J Cairns.
I'm a beginner with all this but it's got me thinking. Zohar even suggested that as measurement can collapse a wave function, perhaps it's our very attitudes that are an equivalent of the measurement and partially create the reality that we experience.
2007-04-27
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