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My Hypothesis: All matter exists in a sphere of probability. Our brains are masters of computing probabilities to tell us the most likely location for any object. It is not that we collapse the wave form, but that our brain ignores the wave form for our convenience.

Light is always a wave, never a particle. And a wave is just a probability.

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Do you account for the fact that probability distributions can have multiple peaks with equal probability? If multiple brains were involved, they'd somehow have to coordinate on what they deem the most likely outcome.

Our brains all use the program, but we can see when some of these programs have a glitch. Take some LSD and you will see what I mean.

> probability distributions can have multiple peaks with equal probability?

I think I know where you are going, but can you be more clear so I do not confuse things with my assumptions?

Say there is a quantum system – a particle or something – that has an equal probability to collapse in either of two classical states if measured. Say there are two scientists in a laboratory who perform a measurement on that system. If your hypothesis is true, how do they agree on what they perceive when looking at the result of the measurement? Each brain would have to make an arbitrary decision on which of the two equally likely outcomes to perceive.

Well, consider some of the political disagreements we've had in the last decade or so, we have ample evidence that two different people can look at the exact same thing and arrive at opposite conclusions.

How do all calculators know that 2+2=4?

But our mental system is not as perfect. Because a person with schizophrenia or someone on LSD they surely not see the same things we do.

Our brains would then exist in a state of probability too.

Yes, they do. But our minds do not. The brain creates the mind, the ego, and this is another collapse of a wave form.

so the brain creates the mind but it does not fully determine the mind?

why does the mind only experience one of the brains collapsed states?

The brain creates the function of the mind.

The mind doesn’t experience a collapsed state, it is a collapsed state. And from that collapsed state, we experience all other collapsed states through the same brain function.

The brain uses our senses to collect the probabilities that exist in the world, and the brain collapses those probabilities into a single “point”.

We need to connect - we are of the same mind. How do we do that? I have composed a 'book' on the topic and would love your thoughts.

awesome!

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Hello again! I have tried to send you an email, but it says your address does not exist. I would very much like to connect!

Is the address correct, and I have made an error? Perhaps it's .net?

Thank you!

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