Sent to: brucero@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
you for writing this eloquent, highly informative, and
thoroughly enjoyable book! But where's the beef? For most of the book,
you tease the reader with the promise that proof of a relation****p
between consciousness and quantum mechanics will come later. I think
that the idea is preposterous (even LIFE, much less human beings,
isn't special: see http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande/conscious).
But I
didn't see it. What am I missing?
Remember, a thought experiment is not an experiment. I remember lots
of thought experiments, but not one description of an actual
experiment. ESPECIALLY when an issue is controversial, you need to
make a special effort to prove your point. That means, in physics,
describe an actual experiment. You ALLUDE to many experiments, but, as
far as I can recall, don't describe any actual experiments.
If you ****ne a light on a single slit, the quanta act like billiard
balls. If on a double slit, like waves. Consciousness doesn't enter
the picture. If you perform the cat experiment, in a short time, the
cat must be alive or dead. Waiting a while to look into the box adds
nothing.
I only read the book because I am interested in consciousness, so it's
disappointing to me not to find more discussion of this most im****tant
point.
If it's there, but I missed it, can you please tell me what page it's
on?
Sincerely yours,
Mike Vandeman (B.A. & M.A. Mathematics, Ph.D. Psychology)
--
I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to
humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8
years fighting auto dependence and road construction.)
Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are
fond of!
http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
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