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Excellent paper. Clears up the misconceptions. Thanks.

Has anyone calculated the amount of expansion? Because the space I'm sitting in right now must be expanding too, surely? Andromeda is so far away it's hard to image gravity overcoming expansion, especially when you read about galaxies moving away from us at substantial percentages of the...

Excuse my ignorance. I don't know much about this subject, but there's something I've read about that I don't understand. If space is expanding and everything is getting further away from everything else, how is Andromeda heading towards us?

Well I don't want to turn this thread into a metaphysical debate on the nature of Consciousness. I am happy to admit that I don't know the answer here, but would side against the functionalists based on intuition alone (a very bad guide, I know).

Yes, I liked the socks analogy, but it doesn't square with what I've read, i.e. if this were the case, Bell's Inequalities would hold, as DrChinese et. al. have pointed out. So given Bell's result, I would be right in thinking that this is not merely correlation?

Coming at this problem from the angle of philosophy/psychology and an unhealthy relationship with the Journal of Consciousness Studies, I'm interested to know how you Physicists interpret the process of collapse, or rather the concept of entanglement. I've read so much new age rubbish all over...