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My hand wavy view is that 'consciousness' which causes collapse is a very small (collapse resistant as Chalmers wrote) object inside the brain. For example, it is an electric potential of membrane of a single neuron. As a result, everything outside it  - the whole universe - is in some sense the Schrödinger cat. 

The whole 'macroscopic quantum effects' are interferences between whole universes branches from the view of this small quantum object in they brain. It could be rephrased as small quantum object in the brain is itself in complex quantum states which may sound more plausibly.

Because the interference is happening between whole branches, photon-cause decoherence of some objects inside each branch is not relevant. 

This is why Everett called his theory relative interpretation of QM: there is a relation (multiplication of vectors states) between two systems, observer and the universe. Note that later "many worlds interpretation" is oversimplification of this idea as it excludes interference between branches.

Really interesting idea.

We could check already existing data from e.g. parapsychology for this effect. As I remember, it was observed there that the stronger is control in the experiments, the less is co-called psi-effect which usually was interpreted as evidence against psi.

But suspect that that meta-anti-epistemic nature of the phenomena will appear even in such setup and it will produce initially promising but then declining results.

Sabina Hossenfelder argues against the idea decoherence is measurement e.g. here: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/what-is-quantum-measurement-problem.html  As I understand, the main difference form her view is that decoherence is the relation between objects in the system, but measurement is related to the whole system "collapse".

I think (give like 30 per cent probability) that the general nature of the UFO phenomenon is that it is anti-epistemic, that it, it actively prevents our ability to get definite knowledge about about it. How exactly this happens is not clear, and there could be several ideas. 

One idea (it will be quantum woo, I know) which I find attractive is that other observers are in the situation of  Wigner friend.  A remote observer in the such state can interact with other non-collapsed objects. But the only way I can learn about this is getting some strange stories after this remote observer was observed by me and "collapsed". However, I can't personally observe such high strangeness events. This put a limit on the power of evidence I can get about hight strangeness phenomena. 

Note that by "collapse" I mean here not an observation of a single object inside the universe, but my observation of the whole universe, which fully collapses it. 

My rather marginal view is that both UFO and BigFoot is the same phenomenon which can appear only in the sitiations of "low concentration of human attention". In some sense it is similar to large-scale Schrodinger's cat, which can be in the state of both alive and dead only when unobserved.


This explains why there are many evidence but never conclusive evidence. 

What if UFO are indeed really weird, but this will not shake LW belief system as it will be easily retrospectively explained: e.g. 'we always know that acausal cooperation between glitching streams in dust theory will produce Bayesian artifacts with low apriori probability but also unprovable in classical statistic sense'.

Is it epistemically isomorphic to sleeping beuaty problem?

I observed new visual qualia of colors while using some light machine.

Also, when I first came to Italy, I have a feeling as if the whole rainbow of color qualia changed

"my priors against aliens are high" -> "no aliens" -> "no need to do anything" is bad

The priors against aliens should be indeed high, but there could be many other hypothesis which generates observation of objects which looks like alien crafts, and some of them are

  • interstellar animals similar to chameleons which poorly mimic anything they see
  • lobotomized nanotech-based berserkers trying to stop AI development
  • interdimensional tourists and hobbists 
  • glitches in GPT-9 where we happened to live as half-activated patterns
  • effects of distorted observation in consciousness-causes-collapse interpretation quantum mechanics
  • psyop war between US, Russia and China, similar to number stations. 

I see problem with the tweet thread that the main evidence it uses against UFO-cases is impossibility of dyno-bevers. But most plausible explanation is glitches in the matrix, and such glitches would equally likely create 'alien crafts' and 'dyno-bevers'. Both are equally absurd.

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