Antirealism in Sheep’s Clothing

Rudolph Krejci

Travis Norsen

Daqing Daching Piao

The sheep-goat effect cannot be explained without considering mind of specific states. This work speculates mind-matter interaction, as was inferred by many including Erwin Schrödinger, for entertaining analytically-flavored “phenomenological” interpretation of the sheep-goat effect. A fundamental construct of this theory is the operation of mind-matter events in a spatial-temporal-attentional domain, which reduces to the spatial-temporal domain wherein purely objective events are registered, at the vanishing of the effect of attention. Time-dependent Schrodinger’s equation is then treated as a lower-dimensional case of a higher-dimensional mind-matter-event equation elaborated in the spatial-temporal-attentional complex. The domain-coupling when modulated by the phase difference between the temporal and attentional dimensions, can enhance or inhibit the deviation of the event registration in the spatial-temporal domain from its baseline probability. The outcome is akin the sheep-goat effect.

Wojciech Hubert Zurek

It is difficult to imagine how a discovery in physics could reverberate around the world in the same way that Dolly the cloned sheep has in recent weeks. As biologists clone sheep and monkeys – albeit with only one event in noisy backgrounds of several hundred failed attempts – physicists are still trying to "clone" the wave-functions of single atoms, and then only in special circumstances. Yet as medical and biological research garners larger amounts of the public funds available for science, physicists with the requisite expertise could do worse than follow the old adage: "If you can't beat them, join them".