Recent content by McGarr

Thanks for your reply. I understand that evolution doesn't work towards anything. However, when something is evolved - that is it is the product of natural selection of it will have a tendency to exhibit the attributes that made it "fit". An obvious an example would be the potential to self-...

Hello All :) I've heard it proposed that a reason for the fine tuned nature of our universe in a way to allow the existence of complexity and life could be that the universe itself is the product of evolution in a multi-verse. I don't want to debate around the anthropological principle as I am...

If I was disembodied then I would not have the option of measuring..

Isn't there another interpretation put forward by Hawking that the when we make a measurement and collapse the wave function we are revealing an initial condition of the universe? That's what I am looking for.. If we define an initial condition as a variable that has a degree of freedom from...

If we observe it to be random - how do we know it is determenistic?

Does that mean that there is no statistical part of quantum mechanics?

Hi, A thought experiment I am struggling with.. Imagine you were disembodied and could only communicate with the outside world through the wave function collapse. What would be the best way to try and communicate with people? Conversely, if you were looking for such a person what device...