<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 22:08, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Consciousness (but not knowledge) might be non-local phenomenon. So <br>
here is an interesting thought experiment:<br>
<br>
Imagine a conscious observer. Now notice that while a conscious <br>
observer must have some none-zero rest mass, it is at all times at <br>
rest with respect to itself by definition of its own frame of <br>
reference. Consequently, its velocity and therefore momentum relative <br>
to itself is zero. This means that the uncertainty in the conscious <br>
observer's momentum is also zero. Since by the quantum mechanics of <br>
wave functions and Heisenberg uncertainty, zero uncertainty in your <br>
momentum is equivalent to infinite uncertainty in your position, the <br>
conscious observer exists throughout all of space. In other words, you <br>
have no clue which universe you are in BECAUSE you are in an infinite <br>
number of universes BECAUSE you are a conscious observer. And as a <br>
corollary no conscious observer is allowed by physics to be omniscient.<br>
<br>
Think about it as your soul passing through a slit of zero width and <br>
diffracting everywhere. This idea sounds very Deepak Chopra to even to <br>
me so be brutal. Tell me why it is wrong.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you feel acceleration, your momentum has changed.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>