Quantum superposition — elucid
Why did you start another thread about this? You're the one who started the first thread a few days ago. — Terrapin Station
For one possible physical picture, consider a river that forks around an island. You could represent the river symbolically as:
River = left fork + right fork — Andrew M
No; this is the very same thread, just in a different place.... — Banno
I don't know enough about QM to know if you are right with this analogy, BUT I SURE HOPE YOU ARE :smile: This seems a great analogy that does help even idiots like me to understand. — ZhouBoTong
Thanks! It's even adaptable to your favorite interpretation:
Pilot wave theory: An invisible river guides the boat.
Many Worlds: There is a boat on each fork of the river.
Copenhagen: There is no river until you launch the boat.
RQM: In your reference frame there is a boat on the river.
QBism: You should believe there is a boat on the river.
Consciousness causes collapse: Your mind creates the river. And the boat.
Instrumentalism: We don't talk about the river. — Andrew M
Hey Andrew, just curious, would that be more in keeping with an Idealist model? — 3017amen
Accordingly, I was thinking about the conscious and subconscious mind creating two separate realities:
"Sometimes, you are so much into cognitive processes and imagination that your existence shrinks down to only physical presence because you are mentally somewhere else. Missing road turns while driving or adding wrong ingredients while cooking are common examples in this regard."
Does that mean we can perceive two realities at one time viz. our consciousness or conscious states of Being? — 3017amen
Yep, the great analogy continues. — ZhouBoTong
Are you thinking that would simply indicate that the subconscious mind and the conscious mind are working in unison? (This is not a rhetorical question: If so, how is that explainable?) — 3017amen
But it is a mistake to say that QM definitely shows us particles being in multiple locations. It doesn't. — petrichor
One interesting thing to realize is that nobody has ever even seen a photon in flight! Such things might not even exist except in models. — petrichor
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