Posted: Feb 04, 2013 11:44 pm
Onyx8 wrote:Even a roulette wheel sitting level. There is a relationship between where the wheel is when the ball is released to where the ball ends up. IIRC there was a case where two people acting in concert could increase the odds of winning by having one of them watch the release and communicate that to the other while the second one placed a bet before the ball hit the first stud which is the cut off point. They got caught.
The relevant/enigmatic point about quantum behaviour is that any possible outcome appears to be contingent upon the intrinsically unpredictable nature of quanta themselves. Conversely, balls and wheels are not deemed to be intrinsically unpredictable, which is why the odds of a specific number coming-up - all external circumstances being equal - are precisely 36-to-1. Of course, you can change those external circumstances (incline the wheel, for instance), but any change in the likelihood of any particular event happening, is not something we can solely attribute to the intrinsic properties of the wheel and/or ball.
Hence, the significance of finding a mathematical analysis which did manage to map human behaviour with quantum behaviour, would be that such had provided evidence for the purely intrinsic properties of humankind, or consciousness.