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>From: pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Functionalist Theory of Qualia
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1992 17:16:50 GMT

In article <406@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>
>Perhaps not, but a recent experiment has shown that a brain is not necessary
>for causing a wave-function colapse, just any measuring instrument, even
>if it is never looked at (indeed even if it is not producing any observable
>output to look at).
>
>This suggests to me that wave-function collapse is a simple physical process
>that occurs when a wave packet interacts with certain types of systems.
>
>That is, pure Quantum Mechanics is incomplete (wow - big surprise :-)).
>
I hope you do not mean to ressurect hidden variable theory? It seems to me
pretty dead as a result of Aspect's experiments. 
And I would hesitate to refer to 'wave-function collapse' as a 'simple physical
process'. After all it it involves 'instantenouos' correlations (faster than
speed of light).

>uunet!tdatirv!sarima				(Stanley Friesen)
>


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