{"id":4110,"date":"2016-04-18T23:27:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T23:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2016-04-18T23:27:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T23:27:26","slug":"quantum-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/04\/18\/quantum-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So I’ve been wondering why this levitating thing only happened once to me and I was never able to reproduce it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve thought perhaps because that one time there were no witnesses and maybe witnesses are important because there is something to the idea of consensus reality and that would have broken consensus big time because that stuff just isn’t supposed to happen, or so we’ve been trained.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I got to thinking about quantum wave function collapse, and Schrodinger’s poor hapless cat who, for a while, was in this superimposed state of being simultaneously dead and alive.\u00a0 I mean I kind of think I understand how that feels, I think I am feeling it now.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, that was resolved once someone came along and observed it either dead or alive.\u00a0 But what decided which it would be upon observation?\u00a0 Perhaps the observer?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And so here is my thought perhaps if we’re the only observer anything is possible, after all we’re just an assemblage of particles, all of which have many possible quantum states, and although the probability of us spontaneously floating up into the air is very very remote, it is not zero.\u00a0 And so perhaps in the absence of any other observer other than ourselves it can happen.\u00a0 And perhaps if all observers expect the same outcome, even if it’s improbable it can happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This would explain the successes in such areas as remote viewing at SRI where most people there expected to have a positive outcome, or the Monroe institute.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes though when we’re all alone we still can’t do things, we still break our noses trying to run through walls, but perhaps that’s because that is what we ourselves expect.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is a problem with today’s surveillance society.\u00a0 It is locking us all into a public consensus which is that we’re utterly incapable of doing anything interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So I’ve been wondering why this levitating thing only happened once to me and I was never able to reproduce it. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve thought perhaps because that one time there were no witnesses and maybe witnesses are important because … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}