Quantum vs Classical Consciousness: How our Metaphysical Existence drives Wave Function Collapse to form Personalized Versions of Reality
It is our consciousness that creates the environment in which pure quantum systems become classical. This suggests that it is our perceptions that represent the microscopic systems that irreversibly pinpoint boundless “pure quantum systems”. The Result: our reality is a direct result of Wave Function Collapse triggered by our inability to exist in an environment without irreversibly altering it. The irreversibility of our reality suggests entropy, which is essentially a transformation of order to chaos. It would seem fair to say then that: unique perceptions ensure unique realities.
Quantum Darwinism: Sociology to Social Media
Quantum Darwinism will help us explain pure metaphysical consciousness[quantum consciousness] transformations from the environmentally unrestricted set of possible reality states to the greatly reduced set of manifested reality states as a selection process, “einselection”, imposed on the quantum system through its continuous interactions with the environment.
All quantum interactions, including interactions with the environment such as with discrete sets of information and activity[eg. Social Media] in which our “quantum consciousness” can become immersed, lead to “decoherence” or the manifestation of the quantum consciousness in a particular reality dictated by the nature of the interaction in which the quantum consciousness is immersed or otherwise impactfully engaged.
It can be successfully argued that the preferred reality into which a quantum consciousness will decohere is the “pointer” reality that makes any sort of predictability of human behavior possible.
It is in this sense that the pointer realities are selected from quantum reality and exist in the macroscopic realm in a state able to undergo further evolution. In other words, because people are the context in which “reality happens”, the environmental collisions that our consciousness has over time, will invariably force the evolution of our realities. While this seems obvious, what we really mean is that: we do not have “reality done to us”. It is in fact the complete opposite: our consciousness as an additive “environment” is what reduces the boundless possibilities of quantum reality down to a single instance of classical reality, or simply: Personalized Wave Function Collapse.
Quantum Darwinism conforms neatly to the simplicity of “evolutionary Darwinism:
· Large numbers of people represent a population of similar Realities
· Realities evolve continuously in an iterative manner, in which each successive manifestation inherit “personality” from prior manifestations.
· Realities, being shaped by consciousness, which in turn is impacted by our interactions with our environment, continue to evolve, and those realities that survive will show to
conform to the predictions of classical physics[metaphysical] within the macroscopic world.
From this view Quantum Darwinism provides a Darwinian explanation at the basis of our reality, explaining the unfolding or evolution of our classical macroscopic world. It is perhaps surprising that this same mechanism operating at the emergence of classical reality from quantum reality is also seen by scientific theories to be operating at the emergence of Social Media from Sociology.
Now, because humans are equipped with self-awareness, and varying degrees of meta-cognition, Realities can be “steered” to a certain extent towards interactions with environments that are desirable. But, just as Quantum to Classical Transformations tell us: the observation of Wave Function Collapse does not tell us why, only when and where, and the prediction of collapse is a function of probability, not certainty.
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