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[QUOTE="PeroK, post: 6032903, member: 493650"] Suppose we say that "Wigner is a physicist". Can that be translated into quantum mechanics? I guess it's possible that you could define some properties of a bunch of atoms that represented physicist from non-physicist. But, it seems to me, that it may be impossible to disentangle that property from the atomic configuration. Or, "Wigner is a US Citizen". How could you, by studying the atomic configuration of a bunch of atoms tell whether they represented a US Citizen? In that case, if citizenship is a defining property of a human being, then a human being is not a quantum object. In general, the question is whether a complex system can assume properties not inherent in the underlying atomic configuration. The reductionist position would be that it cannot. But, does that mean that what someone has written or achieved in life is either not a defining part of them or is inherent in their current atomic structure? In any case, Wigner cannot be a quantum object but a continuously evolving set of quantum systems. He's effectively never the same quantum system from one moment to the next. [/QUOTE]
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