Is life improbable?

WILLIAM ECKHARDT

Stuart Alan Kauffman

I have discussed the remote possibility that entangled quantum variables are jointly conscious, that the living state is quantum, a poised realm, and classical, that death may be “going classical” with the release of entangled quantum variables from the now dead body – which variables, reflecting a quantum entangled aspect of the living state, could just conceivably, be souls. There are ways to test a few aspects of these ideas, but not many. The central idea that quantum variables are conscious at measurement cannot now be tested. These are very remote possibilities, but not, I think, ruled out scientifically.

Thomas Lewton

Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik, Oleg V Teryaev

We suggest to combine the Anthropic Principle with Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Theory. Realizing the multiplicity of worlds it provides an opportunity of explanation of some important events which are assumed to be extremely improbable. The Mesoscopic Anthropic Principle suggested here is aimed to explain appearance of such events which are necessary for emergence of Life and Mind. It is complementary to Cosmological Anthropic Principle explaining the fine tuning of fundamental constants. We briefly discuss various possible applications of Mesoscopic Anthropic Principle including the Solar Eclipses and assembling of complex molecules. Besides, we address the problem of Time's Arrow in the framework of Many-World Interpretation. We suggest the recipe for disentangling of quantities defined by fundamental physical laws and by an anthropic selection.

Wilhelmus de Wilde

I argue that Reality is an emergent phenomenon from Total Simultaneity (TS). This emergent phenomenon is to be strictly separated from its underlying structure TS. TS is a concept that can be localised behind the Planck units of space and time and is constituted as the totality of ALL possible emergent realities structured as probabilities (hidden variables). Time is a restriction of our emerged reality, so is space. As ALL time/life-lines of ALL probable (and for us improbable) realities are interconnected inside TS, our own experience of time and space is also interconnected with them through entangled partial consciousness. The what I call Point Zero is the point inside TS from where an agent’s emergent reality experience originates. Past and Future are created there through partial Consciousness. The so called “weird” quantum effects are explained this way. The reference of reference in our emerged reality is this partial consciousness: the I”. The “Splitting up” from the Many World Interpretation is becoming “Jumping towards” another Time/Life-line inside Total Simultaneity. ALL other “worlds” are already existing as probabilities inside TS. This explains the seemingly retro-causality in our emerged reality.

Adam Frank