[ExI] quantum entanglement

[Will Steinberg]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>wrote:

> On 1/11/2010 2:56 PM, John Clark wrote:
>
>  quantum entanglement can't transmit information, it can change things at
>> a distance but you need more than that to send a message, you also need
>> a standard to measure that change against, and that is where
>> entanglement falls short.
>>
>
> Isn't the message problem that you can't *force* a predictable change upon
> part of an entangled system? If A's particle spin is up, then B's is down,
> okay, you know that--but A can't *make* her particle go spin up when she
> wants it to without breaking the entanglement. No?
>
>
 Right, which is why Psi has to be based on observation of a root signal
causing identital changes or predictions in one or more people, maybe
leading to drastic conclusions on truly "random" mental occurences governing
our thoughts.
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