Recent content by Martin777

There is in quantum physics an idea called the "von Neumann catastrophe" or the "Case of Wigner's friend", where the wave-function of the measuring apparatus is itself collapsed by observation of a conscious entity, which could be applicable to decoherence, in that the environment doesn't...

Matthew Alper seems to have conflated materialism with physicalism. the first is the philosophy that only material things exist, so when the material body dies there's nothing left (note however, there may still be room for an unknown "stuff", yet to be discovered), whereas physicalism its...