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Stapp writes: "The key features of Bohm=92s model are that the probability =
distribution exists objectively, and =

decomposes dynamically at the level of the macroscopic variables, during ce=
rtain "measurement-type" physical =

processes, into distinguishable branches, one of which is singled out by a =
nonlocal mechanism. It is postulated =

that only this one singled-out branch is experienced in human consciousness=
=2E" (p.18) =


Stapp is not as clear here as he might be about this =91postulate=92. He th=
inks in terms of the Bohr paradigm in =

which there are no hidden variables or "beables". Perhaps that is why he fa=
ils to mention the key point here =

which is that "this one singled-out branch" that "is experienced in human c=
onsciousness" is the one occupied by =

the beable.  That is, the classical pointer position of the macroscopic mea=
suring device is EPR correlated to =

that branch in which the beable is. This is all for measurements on the out=
er world. A very similar analysis =

applies to the self-measurements of conscious introspection in which the to=
tal mind, both subconscious and =

conscious consists of all the branches whose beable is a special material b=
rain substrate. The conscious part =

of the mind is that branch where the beable is. Even when we are sleeping t=
he occupied branch appears as the =

content of a dream. If the beable is not in any one branch, but is under th=
e influence of several branches that =

are not well separated we experience a dreamlike superposition of seemingly=
 "parallel worlds".  In dreamless =

sleep the beable is wandering in a no-man=92s land between widely separated=
 branches, i.e., "attractors", in its =

classical configuration space.


-- =

Jack Sarfatti, sarfatti@well.com, =

http://www.well.com/user/sarfatti/index.html
"Perhaps I did use such a philosophy earlier, =

and even wrote it, but it is nonsense all the same."
Einstein on Bohr's positivism to Heisenberg in 1926.
