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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 01:23:27 · 2 answers · asked by tom t 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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That is indeed deep, but quantum mechanics only work at the sub-atomic level. One you go beyond the subatomic level the 2weirdness" of quantum mechanics averages out to what we call "normality".
I'm not going to claim to be a biologist, but I believe that adaptive biology shows that genes show evolution beyond mere chance as a reaction to their environment. Thus, since they are reacting to a pre-defined situation, their mutation is not random.
If quantum mechanics worked at the super-atomic level, then wave collapses would mean people would be popping in and out of existence every now and then (as the probability of that happening exists).

2007-04-27 01:48:35 · answer #1 · answered by MSDC 4 · 0 0

That's deep!
Probably answer is yes

2007-04-27 08:35:12 · answer #2 · answered by Pete S 3 · 0 0

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