Wigner’s Friend likes Digital Consciousness
December 26, 2019 3 Comments
Apparently your reality may be different than mine. Wait, what???
Several recent studies have demonstrated to an extremely high degree of certainty that objective reality does not exist. This year, adding to the mounting pile of evidence for a consciousness-centric reality, came the results of an experiment that for the first time, tested the highly paradoxical Wigner’s Friend thought experiment. The conclusion was that your reality and my reality can actually be different. I don’t mean different in the sense that your rods and cones have a different sensitivity, or that your brain interprets things differently, but fundamentally intrinsically different. Ultimately, things may happen in your reality that might not happen in my reality and vice versa.
Almost sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Or like you and I are playing some kind of virtual reality game and the information stream that is coming into your senses via your headset or whatever is different that the information stream coming into mine.
BINGO! That’s Digital Consciousness in a nutshell.
Eugene Paul Wigner received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1963 for his work on quantum mechanics and the structure of the atom. More importantly perhaps, he, along with Max Planck, Neils Bohr, John Wheeler, Kurt Godel, Erwin Schrodinger, and many other forward thinking scientists and mathematicians, opposed the common materialistic worldview shared by most scientists of his day (not to mention, most scientists of today). As such, he was an inspiration for, and a forerunner of consciousness-centric philosophies, such as my Digital Consciousness, Donald Hoffman’s MUI theory, and Tom Campbell’s My Big TOE.
As if Schrodinger’s Cat wasn’t enough to bend people’s minds, Wigner raised the stakes of quantum weirdness in 1961 when he proposed a thought experiment, referred to as “Wigner’s Friend.” In the scenario are two people, let’s say Wigner and his friend. One of them is in an enclosed space, hidden to the other and observes something like Schrodinger’s cat, further hidden in a box. At the time Wigner opens the box the wave function collapses, establishing whether or not the cat is dead. But the cat is still in superposition to Wigner’s friend, outside of the entire subsystem. Only when he opens the door to see Wigner and the result of the cat experiment, does his wave function collapse. Therefore, Wigner and his friend have differing interpretations of when reality become realized; hence different realities.
Fast forward to 2019, and scientists (Massimiliano Proietti, Alexander Pickston, Francesco Graffitti, Peter Barrow, Dmytro Kundys, Cyril Branciard, Martin Ringbauer, and Alessandro Fedrizzi) at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, were finally able to test the paradox using double slits, lasers, and polarizers. The results confirmed Wigner’s hypothesis to a certainty of 5 standard deviations, which essentially means that objective reality doesn’t exist, and your and my realities can differ- to a certainty of 1 in 3.5 million!
Of course, I live for this stuff, because it simply adds one more piece of supporting evidence to my theory, Digital Consciousness. And it adds yet another nail in the coffin of that ancient scientific religion, materialism.
How does it work?
Digital Consciousness asserts that consciousness is primary; hence, all that we can truly know is what we each experience subjectively. This experiment doesn’t necessarily prove that the fundamental construct of reality is information, but it is a lot more plausible that individual experiences based on virtual simulations are at the root of this paradox rather than, say, a complex violation of Hilbert space, allowing parallel realities based on traditional physical fields to intermingle. As an analogy, imagine that you are playing an MMORPG (video game with many other simultaneous players) – it isn’t difficult to see how each individual could be having a slightly different experience, based perhaps on their skill level or something. As information is the carrier of the experience, the information entering the consciousness of one player could easily be slightly different than the information entering the consciousness of another player. This is by far the simplest explanation, and by Occam’s Razor, supports my theory.
Too bad Wigner isn’t alive to see this experiment, or to ponder Digital Consciousness theory. But I’m sure his consciousness is having a good laugh.
Musings on the Nature of Reality 
Eh? You say Edin”BORO” and I say Edin”BURG” – that’s a compliment really (only dumb people say “Burg” right?).
But I would add to the statement that “objective reality does not exist.” by taking a look at objectivity in the ATTI viewpoint from of outside in as — “objective reality just barely exists” and “only when we need it to.” That is more the Jon Stewart Bell way of looking at it anyway.
Maybe in the same way Neo sums it up by saying “there is no spoon,” in this one we can just say, “maybe the cat had a box too.”
We are still hopelessly trapped and are categories we use to understand the world and cannot get deeper than those.
The concept of ZERO has fascinated me for quite a while as an explanation of existence. If one uses words to describe it, is zero “nothingness” or the “absence of something”? If it is the absence of something, this assumes that there is something that would be outside of zero but just not included in the idea. Chimps have a concept of the absence of something as proven recently. Do they have a concept of nothingness, I doubt it. If we analyse this we start with the thesis that “zero is nothing”, the antithesis being “matter exists as something”, the synthesis would be that “zero became something”. The geometric symbol for zero consists as a circle. However, we know that a single point on the circle could actually be the point of nothing as we need another point to begin to create zero. As it is well understood, even in the Ancient Greek and Hindu societies, by connecting the pointe of zero to the next point, you create a line. If you keep adding pointe on the line, you will actually visualise a zero. This is due to the infinite numbers that exist between the single point and the next visible point.
The existence of god is the smallest fraction of the first point to the second point. This can never be located due to the infinite number of fractals. This can be viewed by a phyllotaxis which is pictured in all ancient of cultures. If we consider god to be that first point, there would be nothingness, as god would have had nothing to compare it to. It wouldn’t be until the first step was taken to conceptualise the existence of something between zero and one that the universe comes into existence. While god is a single point, there is no time and existence is eternal. From a catholic view, god, the Holy Spirit and Jesus are all the same “persons” in that point. The word “persons” is used as opposed to “people” as persons is a possessive word indicating the whole of the one.
God through spirit made the jump into universe. God’s spirit moved from a single point to a second point and all the infinite variables therein. The variables do not affect the infinite nature of god as they are in an infinite numeric state. Since god is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. This means that the single point as god, is/was everywhere, knows everything and is possessed of everything. In other words, all that exists or has ever existed is god. God remains eternal, knows everything and is in every particle in existence.
The single point of god came to our limited perception to instruct us how we are joined with god during our lifetime in his creation. We have experienced this in the hindu, buddhist, christian and all other religions. Jesus taught that our physical bodies will reform into spiritual at some point. He impeded this concept in his apostles. He overcame the struggles of this world and transformed himself into a being of light as god. The buddhist monks have been seen to just dematerialise into a being of light and disappear during deep states of meditation. The meditation is used to clear one’s mind of everything. This strive for nothingness. When this is attained, one turns into being of light or waves. A being of energy. One with the singularity of zero existance. The Buddhists strove to reach the highest point on earth to strive for this oneness with god as an eternal all knowing nothingness. It is impossible to reach many of these caves in the Himalayan mountains, the location of Tibetan Buddhism. Their caves contain the phyllotaxis. They seek to reach the singularity existing at the beginning of the phyllotaxis through meditation. Jesus exhibited the same concept in his teachings when he said, “Do this in memory of me”. He was saying that one must escape the physical body no matter what pain/meditation and enter as a being of energy, of the Word, the energy of the spirit that created everything, which we must return to. The zero.
More later…