One often hears comments to the effect that "even if a computer could somehow think, it couldnever feel." And Dreyfus (1978), among others, has argued that this imposes strict limitations onthe potential power of computer thought. After all, what is intuition but a sense of what "feelsright"? The weakest point of such arguments is…
The measurement paradox is not the only philosophically troublesome aspects of quantumphysics. Bell’s Theorem (1987), with its implication of instantaneous communication betweendistant events, is equally unsettling. The simplest example of this is the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen(EPR) thought experiment. Two electrons, initially coupled, are shot off in different directions. Itis assumed that each one flies for millions…
For sixty years physicists have struggled with the paradox of quantum measurement.However, despite a number of theoretical advances, rather little progress has been made towardresolution of the basic dilemma. The problem is one of physics versus phenomenology.According to quantum physics, no physical entity is ever in a definite state; the most one canever say…