<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 12, 2025, 10:14 PM Adrian Tymes 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">On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat<br>
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> I'm sorry I am not following. How is it you are proposing the universe rigs up the photons to have the right polarizations to provide the expected statistics, when setting the polarizer filters to match the digits of sqrt(19)?<br>
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It doesn't - and it doesn't have to.<br>
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Please stop trying to claim that superposition means the universe<br>
takes conscious, intelligent action. It does not mean that.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm not claiming that. It is an implication of superdeterminism that the universe actively works to thwart any attempt to catch it. If you don't like that implication, then you should reject superdeterminism.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Have you ever sat at a campfire and counted the number of crackling<br>
sounds it makes per minute? This crackling rate depends on how far<br>
along the fire is, the type and moisture of the wood, and other<br>
factors - but not any conscious decision by the fire itself. It's<br>
very much not a steady metronome, but for the same characteristics (of<br>
wood, fire stage, et al) you'll get about the same rate of crackles.<br>
Likewise, for the same properties of light source, you'll get the same<br>
range of polarizations - on average - without the universe consciously<br>
causing it.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The correlations observed provably (by Bell) cannot be explained by hidden variables set at the time of the photons production, unless you go so far as to propose the photons (or what creates them) somehow know exactly how they will later be measured at both locations. But the decisions of how they would be measured can be made outside the light cone of the photon pair production, so there can be no causal link between when the photons are created and when the decision for how to measure them is made. Unless, you say that *somehow* everything was prearranged such that all the events that would eventually lead to how you as a human would decide to make the measurements was already factored into the creation of every photon pair you would ever measure. And moreover: the stastics of those hidden variables will be just such as what are necessary to fool you into thinking the universe is operating according to Bell inequality exceeding statistics, which suggests no hidden variables, when in reality really it is hidden variables, but with hidden variables hand-crafted to fool you. And no matter how clever you are in arranging how to make the measurements, in making it depend.on something non physical, in changing your mind while the photons are outside your light cone, in changing your mind on a whim at the last second before the photon arrives, nothing works. The photon's creation process is always able to out guess and out predict your every future move.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Do you understand why I find this explanation incredibly strange?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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If you mean, how did that range come to be? That's emergent<br>
properties from prior states, but if you want a root cause there isn't<br>
one, any more than there being a root cause for the speed of light<br>
being what it is.<br>
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