Posted: Feb 05, 2013 1:20 am
jamest wrote: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.
How, pray, would one 'mathematically' distinguish between the behaviour of an intensely complex self-reprogramming living analogue computer influenced by all manner of corporeal and external inputs, where one had incomplete knowledge of the 'state' and the 'program' at any instant in time, and the behaviour of such a thing with some undefined amount of added Quantum Sauce?