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Black Hole Sun: On the Materialist Sublime

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sciborg2:

--- Quote from: TaoHorror on April 11, 2019, 11:48:13 pm ---This is an amazing read, Sci :)

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Yeah, I'm glad someone else out there thinks causation that is non-mental also doesn't by necessity fall into a random/determined dichotomy.

The physicist Lee Smolin has talked about something similar IMO, that the Universe may move toward production of "novelty" in a non-conscious sense:

Precedence and freedom in quantum physics


--- Quote ---A new interpretation of quantum mechanics is proposed according to which precedence, freedom and novelty play central roles. This is based on a modification of the postulates for quantum theory given by Masanes and Muller. We argue that quantum mechanics is uniquely characterized as the probabilistic theory in which individual systems have maximal freedom in their responses to experiment, given reasonable axioms for the behavior of probabilities in a physical theory. Thus, to the extent that quantum systems are free, in the sense of Conway and Kochen, there is a sense in which they are maximally free.

We also propose that laws of quantum evolution arise from a principle of precedence, according to which the outcome of a measurement on a quantum system is selected randomly from the ensemble of outcomes of previous instances of the same measurement on the same quantum system. This implies that dynamical laws for quantum systems can evolve as the universe evolves, because new precedents are generated by the formation of new entangled states.
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