Hi everyone,
Some people may see this subject as belonging in the Science section.....but I think it is relevant to religion and the idea of Intelligent creation in certain ways. Therefore I have posted it here.
I am sure some of you have heard of the Anthropic Principle developed by Brandon Carter. It states that the universe seems to be fine tuned for humans to evolve and appears to be balanced on a knife edge of coincidences that make human life possible.
In particular the Participatory Anthropic Principle developed by John Wheeler states that Consciousness probably participates in the development of the universe. He uses the Copenhagen Interpretation of QM to develop this argument.
Here is a link on this subject. (I am not sure about the rules on linking articles......so please let me know if there is a problem.)
Participatory Anthropic Principle PAP
An excerpt:
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The Participatory Anthropic Principle, or PAP, is the idea that the universe requires observers, because without observers the universe could not actually exist. This controversial claim is based on the traditional Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics, which requires an act of observation to resolve the superposition of states in a quantum wavefunction. It is one particularly intriguing variant of the anthropic principle.
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Best Wishes,
anwin
Some people may see this subject as belonging in the Science section.....but I think it is relevant to religion and the idea of Intelligent creation in certain ways. Therefore I have posted it here.
I am sure some of you have heard of the Anthropic Principle developed by Brandon Carter. It states that the universe seems to be fine tuned for humans to evolve and appears to be balanced on a knife edge of coincidences that make human life possible.
In particular the Participatory Anthropic Principle developed by John Wheeler states that Consciousness probably participates in the development of the universe. He uses the Copenhagen Interpretation of QM to develop this argument.
Here is a link on this subject. (I am not sure about the rules on linking articles......so please let me know if there is a problem.)
Participatory Anthropic Principle PAP
An excerpt:
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The Participatory Anthropic Principle, or PAP, is the idea that the universe requires observers, because without observers the universe could not actually exist. This controversial claim is based on the traditional Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics, which requires an act of observation to resolve the superposition of states in a quantum wavefunction. It is one particularly intriguing variant of the anthropic principle.
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Best Wishes,
anwin