Persons within the substance of love.

We are experiencing a fundamental paradigm shift in our relationship to knowledge. From the ‘information age’, we are moving towards the ‘reputation age’, in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated and commented upon by others. Seen in this light, reputation has become a central pillar of collective intelligence today. It is the gatekeeper to knowledge, and the keys to the gate are held by others. The way in which the authority of knowledge is now constructed makes us reliant on what are the inevitably biased judgments of other people, most of whom we do not know.

Let me give some examples of this paradox. If you are asked why you believe that big changes in the climate are occurring and can dramatically harm future life on Earth, the most reasonable answer you’re likely to provide is that you trust the reputation of the sources of information to which you usually turn for acquiring information about the state of the planet. In the best-case scenario, you trust the reputation of scientific research and believe that peer-review is a reasonable way of sifting out ‘truths’ from false hypotheses and complete ‘bullshit’ about nature. In the average-case scenario, you trust newspapers, magazines or TV channels that endorse a political view which supports scientific research to summarise its findings for you. In this latter case, you are twice-removed from the sources: you trust other people’s trust in reputable science.

We  will  discuss  quantum  nonlocality  more  in  detail
later  in  Section  VII.  Here  it  is  suitable  to  remember
what experiments in the last three decades have demon-
strated and Specker’s parable also illustrates (see Fig.4):
Quantum correlations cannot be interpreted in the sense
that one event occurs first and is the cause of the other,
but one should rather state that correlated events arise
like a single event coming from outside space-time;  the
prophet’s assignment of outcomes does not involve any
time  order  and  so  can  be  considered  covariant.   Actu-
ally both, quantum nonlocal and local relativistic correla-
tions, assume “free will” and happen without connection
in space-time.

...let's talk about macro quantum effects like the double slit. With a humorous analogy.

Suppose there existed a football stadium. On one side of the field there was an automatic machine-clown-cannon, fed by a line of blindfolded clowns going out to a massive underground storage area. In the center, a huge metal double slit, suspended on poles. And where the far goal post should be, a big brick wall. The audience in the bleachers is told either to watch the ceremony or turn their backs.

Now, with the audience watching, you load up the automatic-cannon with that string of clowns and start firing. The clowns fly through the air. Most of them go splat on one side or the other of the double slit, but a few make it through. And those that do, when they hit the far wall, they also go splat there instead. We see by their trajectory a bloody line of goo up and down the wall, one per slit.

Now turn the audience around. Nobody's watching, not even the blindfolded clowns. What would happen? This a macro event, not a stream of photons. Will there be an interference pattern of clown spatter on that far wall?

I'd bet yes.

smelly wrote:I AM uncontainable Danny boy.

smelly wrote:The Raven King

hobbit wrote:Your president is just down the road at the moment...Blenheim palace,
Having a nosh up, You should see these doves parents feeding them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blenheim_Palace

http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/collareddove.htm
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