On Quantum Mechanics

 Okay. Quantum Mechanics for The Morally Insane.

Let’s say we have two systems, each composed of their own subsystems and processes and whatnot. Suppose that, for some reason, there is some interactive process in each system that depends on the variable of time and that there is some property, (a measurement property), by means of which we can verify that at any given point in time, (ugh, I know), there is part of the state of each system analogous to the other’s. That is, at any moment in time, the state of a certain process in one system corresponds to the state of some process in the other one. But the correspondence is such that there is a method that can translate the measurement of the state of any of these systems’ corresponding processes to the measurement the other system’s at that very same time, without having to actually observe it. That is: without ever having to measure it. The catch is that, until you have the audacity to make such observations of a system’s quantum process, you cannot say what state it is in, and the more accurate your measurement of the state of a system at any given time, the less you know about the state of that system at some later time. Of course, like with a camera, you should be able to take a possibly infinite series of measurements of the state of a certain quantum system very rapidly for some reasonable amount of time in order to be able to tell the state of such system at some time within that interval. That is, unless the process of measurement itself affects the behavior of the quantum system, so that any entanglement it had with any other system is effectively broken! Another thing is that the state of a quantum system is always discrete. Hence, “quantum”.

Anyway, imagine there is a system that’s configured in such a way that regardless of what is asked from them, its answer to any particular question is always the same. A system independent of time. If we liken taking a measurement to asking a question and receiving an answer, we could say mathematics as a whole could be modeled as some kind of particle, or physical structure that exists independent of time. And any measurement of such a system could be regarded, not as fact, as in the case of scientific experiments, but as truth statements within the system questioned, or queried. This is different from human beings, who might lie, or from inconsistent theories whose corresponding truth statements might incur in contradictions between each other within such system. Talking about truth statements, I would like to come back to the idea of the limit. Wait, hear me out. With the idea of the limit, we can find ourselves with a calculus…

You know what? Never mind. I soon found myself looking for the facts about quantum mechanics and realized there are things I’ve yet to know and internalize. I read about the Copenhagen interpretation, and the Pilot Wave theory. It soon seemed that I was treading waters without appropriate swimming gear. How far my intuition works towards this, I don’t know yet. But I feel I have something solid to begin with and plenty of fabric to cut. It could be a good number of years before I can revisit this topic again as freely and lively as I’ve done here. So, yeah. Make of it what you will. Also, I want to note that a few days later, I arrived at the idea that, in order for consciousness to emerge in our brain, we must first contemplate the possibility of contradictory truth statements holding.

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