Can Isolation Turn You Into a Wave Function?

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a funny question into my mind. If you are completely isolated from all environment, will you become just wave function spreading all over the space (or universe whatever)?
 
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Wangf said:
a funny question into my mind. If you are completely isolated from all environment, will you become just wave function spreading all over the space (or universe whatever)?

Yes. But that's true even if you're entangled with everything around you.
 

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