An observer is the simulation programmer who is being paid minimum wage and overworked to the point where he decided to quit. He said: "If they move my desk again, I'll quit. They already moved it five times in the last year. Before, it was near the window, and I could see squirrels, they were married, but then they switched."

I absolutely love this rabbit hole - especially how it relates to consciousness and the collapse of the wave function.

An observer could very well be the environment. Since we are not certain about what things are conscious or even what consciousness is.

Good question and it Is equally good to hear a view of decoupling reality from human observers within the decoherence explanation This brings us up the following question -- Who or what is an observer? Well, in our TOE’s view, the whole classical universe is its own observer, where all galaxies collapse gravitationally moment by moment (at a particle level using our CPT(α,Φ) function mechanism of TOE) In other words, our CPT(α,Φ) function of TOE collapses it by auto-collapsing/landing/toggling each particle from CFT into the next lattice of AdS This simultaneous toggle/shift is what gives us the feeling to human observers that these CFT/AdS dualities are orbiting smoothly like the frames of Muybridge’s Horse in Motion. This explanation resolves everything (including measurement problem)!and to understand our model see below For example. our wave function of a particle ( say electron) is a CPT(α,Φ) function operated wave function that is designed to evolve within the coordinate system of Riemann sphere using Riemann Zeta function (including its corresponding Fourier /Mobius transformations in the projected plane), in such a way that the electric field of each dipole gets rotated as nπ cycles (using Euler’s identity eiπ ) before getting rotated by their magnetic field (by 90 degrees) so that their combined least action (A which we call as collapse when it crosses the origin of complex plane ) - which then starts flowing along the eigen-valued nodes of Ramanujan’s graph including 10 such dualities as explained in this article(www.linkedin.com/pulse/summary-our-firms-10yrs-toe-work-wa-request-world-form-prabakar-k25sc/?trackingId=3oeFnfoaRT61kGCCQ7VNNQ%3D%3D) In other words, our TOE is a CPT(α,Φ) function operated cosmic  dance, where α ends up splitting the frequencies of QVF as 137 dipoles ( aka elementary particles including electrons, quarks etc) using Riemann Zeta function( including its corresponding Fourier/Mobius transformations), in such a way that the electric field of each dipole gets rotated as nπ cycles (using Euler’s identity eiπ ) before getting rotated by their magnetic field (by 90 degrees) so that their combined least action (A) can be twisted to flow along the eigen-valued nodes of Ramanujan graph, using the 2/3:1/3 rule of α (ratioed by its flip sided golden ratio Φ)! Stated otherwise, this idea of embedding CPT function within our TOE with 10+ META DUALITIES of the Langsland/Banach-Tarski/Russell paradox of our SOE/TOE engine is what differentiates our approach! For example, We imagine our Universe as the Riemann Zeta function governed LMFDB universe (that is a motivic/metamorphic/Galois representation based SU 2/SU3/SU4symmetrical engine. In other words, Z(1) is the fundamental frequency of this Universe’s TOE engine that is QVF/ZPE sourced, FSC(α)-Einstein-Bohr-HV-Maxwell Daemon governed frequency of Riemann's zeta function Ζ(S) with a singularity of S=1+0i, that is made up of his harmonic oscillating zeros(S=1/2+it stacked on his 1/2 critical line, before being transformed as a 137 frequency-spin momentum matched dipole, using our FSC(α)-GR-PLA+5 AITGE origin formulas(see exhibit) In other words, our TOE/SOE engine is the one that is transforming the Riemann's zeros into an artistic unit charge SU2 dipole(see visual), by contracting/expanding its electric flux as the center of mass (as r = αR), before rotating its magnetic flux by 90 in such a way that it can be extended into the left plane as a paired unit charge, using the "only possible analytical continuation of Zeta". Sure enough, this engine function is nothing but universe's wave function only, transforming itself from position/time space into frequency/momentum space, using the Fourier/Mobius transform operator -- ψ(k) = ∫ ψ(t) e^-iwt dt - This brings us to our next point about CPT function This "one & only allowed analytically continued/functional equation allowed symmetrical dipole" is what limits/constrains the ∞ pole of Riemann sphere to a value of 137 cycles( per Laurent/Cauchy residue including the α=r/R,=fe/fp=we/wp logic of our CP function as explained in my post and attached one page exhibit for details lim t→ ∞ CP(1/2 + ti) = 1/α cycles of dipole In other words, this CPT function proof(lnkd.in/drGQ44Mt) for Riemann hypothesis is a polynomial in the convex region of the Riemann Sphere only (thanks to the "one and only allowed analytical continuation logic of dipole & its 137 cycle ratio logic"), limiting/constraining the ∞ pole of Riemann sphere to the convex region - which brings us to the what also makes our TOE as the best candidate (compared to all other TOEs), as we visibly see the signatures of FSC and golden ratio throughout nature Simply put - Ours is the only TOE that is anchored on this FSC/golden ratio governed CPT(α,Φ) function mechanism! In other words, for any TOE path to become a final TOE, it must be anchored on this FSC/golden ratio governed CPT(α,Φ) function mechanism end to end (in one form or the other)! This doesn't mean that ours is the only path - and the classic example is how we have integrated Ads/CFT duality of string theory with these 10 dualities of our CPT(α,Φ) function mechanism with the hypothesis that they toggle between CFT-boundary of the lower CP1 plane to & AdS-Bulk upper CP2 plane! This is where we want to extend it to all the other best in class features from all other TOE paths using this integrated program - which brings me to the list of our “top 10 CPT(α,Φ) function caused, META DUALITY PROOFS”, including our recent additions of Ramanujan graphs & Jones/Khovanov homology knots, as summarized below 1. Riemann zeros of dipole/quadrupoles(1/2+ti) 2. Hodge hyperbolic structures(H3 quotioned by K&A L-functions 3. Hodge P-adic parabolic structures (P(N) quotioned by K&A L-functions ) 4. Thurston structures(T(N) quotioned by K&A L-functions ) 5. Polytopes(PT(N) quotioned by K&A L-functions 6. Spectral vertices of Ramanujan graphs G2xK2 Q by Ramanujan L-function 7. K knots of Jones polynomial (&Feynman’s paths/Riemann surfaces) 8. HK knot states of Khovanov homology 9. Prime square roots of Knots theory 10. Irreducible representation of Poincare particles Similarly, if I may summarize the manifestations of these 10 CPT(α,Φ) caused dualities by mapping the lower CP1 plane to CFT-boundary & upper CP2 plane to AdS-Bulk 1. Imagine, as the CPT(α,Φ ) function starts limiting the “Riemannian ∞ quantum spherical universe” into a compact polynomial region of the lower plane (whose WF is modeled using a metamorphic/automorphic Riemann zeta function with a SU2-3-4 symmetry) -- it is automatically cut into infinite slices of irreducible diploid circular spheres at an exact moment when the Zeta function starts crossing the origin. of CP1 2. Also imagine, as these infinite slices get squeezed (1 & 4 at a time) into an exact radiused symplectic geometric asymmetric taurusized cylinder of the CP2 plane (folded from the unit square of CP1 plane)", acting as the Hilbert’s countable infinity hotel. 3. Now, as they get squeezed into an “exact radiused symplectic geometric asymmetric taurusized cylinder”, the electric field starts getting rotated 90°(by the magnetic flux), thus transforming it into an “domino effected ellipsoid”. 4. Now as we analyze the cross section of each “domino affected ellipsoid", we can clearly see these 10 geometrical dualities. 5. Turns out, our CPT(α,Φ) function is the one that rotates these 10 geometrical dualities “galoistically and knotistically” before reassembling them in CP2 as a classical sphere. In other words, CPT(α,Φ) does it all in real time by auto-collapsing/landing/toggling the particle as soon as zeta function starts crossing the origin in CP1 plane, so that it can shift it into the next lattice of CP2. This simultaneous shift is what gives us the feeling that these dualities are orbiting smoothly like the frames of Muybridge’s Horse in Motion. Simply put, Our top 10 CPT(α,Φ) caused dualities, along with our earlier framing of FSC as an AoC/HV/Maxwell daemon(lnkd.in/gtU2Rdix is what makes CPT(α,Φ) function as the META PROOF of Riemann hypothesis with a symbiotic symmetrical fractal causality to10+C-old unsolved problems incl. 5+ $5MM CI problems&10 biz ideas(lnkd.in/gyeftuYk). Similarly, how about I expand its scope to the productivity challenge in the business dimension that has been developed by the very same TOE principles(& synthesized as 1 sentence below and in exhibit) -- Every Maslow’s holacracial(1) economic need is a direct/indirect manifestation of QE caused Scripture/Griffith’s human condition/depravity model problem(2) only -- that is solved using the Principle of least action & its new insight(3) driven Fine-structure-constant(FSC) caused Attention factor (4) driven FSC/GT/Nash Equilibrium(5) based reality accurate S-economics model(6) caused Friedman’s Attention-Pluck(7) -- that is followed by an Solow’s TFP-expansion( 8 ), before it being executed by “sovereign-to-choose with collaboration without coercion(9)” motto, driven Next-Gen capitalism called Sovereign/Conscious Sustainalism(10). as explainer in this summary (www.linkedin.com/pulse/summary-our-firms-10yrs-toe-work-wa-request-world-form-prabakar-k25sc/?trackingId=3oeFnfoaRT61kGCCQ7VNNQ%3D%3D) Welcome complementary POVs

2:43 The "observer" is the interaction with the environment.

Sseth Lloyd is brilliant!

I see the Stawamus Chief in the background. Cool.

This is why I smoke weed to get into the weeds of deep thinking. What is an observer, is there Nothing, infinities bigger than infinities????, Zero, one electron, pi, e, faster than light but wait we are traveling at light speed by the electrons and neutrons that we are made of…. gravity….. good 👍 topic btw. Time for another joint.

Why do people cling with such ferocity to the belief in a mind-independent reality? It is surely because if there is no such reality, then ultimately (as far as we can know) mind alone exists. And if mind is not a product of real matter, but rather is the creator of the illusion of material reality (which has, in fact, despite the materialists, been known to be the case, since the discovery of quantum mechanics in 1925), then a theistic view of our existence becomes the only rational alternative to solipsism." ～ Richard Conn Henry is an Academy Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, author of one book and over 200 publications on the topics of astrophysics and various forms of astronomy.

Determining who or what observes you would think would be a massive pursuit in science but science is not concerned with this or almost rather afraid to determine the answer because of the implication certain results may give. I dont think we have the materials or processing power to determine this yet but I suspect the answer is a matter of information physics.

When there were no humans around what acted as the observer, so a particle could be measured here and there. In its simplest, the various paths (infinite) taken by an electron acts as an observer. Otherwise cosmic consciousness is the observer that collapse the quantum fields to produce particles that has unique position (not here or there).

(Denial in the Physicist Community) Physicists in Denial The theory of relativity informs us that our science is a science of our experience, and not a science of a universe that is independent of us as conscious observers. This nature of our science is also reflected in the formulation of quantum mechanics, since the main formulation of quantum mechanics does not provide direct rules for the behaviour of particles. Instead, it provides rules that concern only the results of measurements by observers. This means that the observer is an intrinsic part of the main formulation of quantum mechanics, and what differentiates the observer from physical particles has to be mind and consciousness. As John von Neumann and Eugene Wigner pointed out, this means that consciousness has an intrinsic role to play in quantum mechanics. Why then has there been so much resistance to recognizing this fundamental fact? And why have physicists, for more than a century, persistently tried to get rid of the observer, even if it meant-in defiance of Occam’s razor-having to insert, by hand, additional hypothetical ad hoc conditions to the basic formulation? The underlying problem appears to be the need to fit this intrinsic role of consciousness, in quantum mechanics, into the prevailing view, in Western philosophy, of a mind-matter duality. An attempt to fit the role of consciousness into this framework of a mind-matter duality would unfortunately lead to solipsism, and that is the main problem. So the vast majority of physicists gravitate, instead, to the stance of materialism, and hence the need for them to free quantum mechanics from the conscious observer. The formulation of quantum mechanics actually does not, in any way, suggest a mind-matter dichotomy, and it certainly does not suggest either materialism or solipsism. Quantum mechanics actually points to a middle way between these two extremes of materialism and solipsism, a realization that both Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli eventually reached. This means that the formulation of quantum mechanics actually points to the philosophical viewpoint of the Buddhist Madhyamika philosophy, also known as the Middle Way philosophy. Madhyamika philosophy would allow us to include the role of consciousness in quantum physics without ending up in the extremes of either solipsism or materialism

In my opinion we’re all observers and subjects at the same time. If I modify or change the state of things when I am present at an environment I become an observer. If somehow another agent or environment change my state or my molecular structure I become the subject.

Fundamental interactions are timeless. However, once the outputs of one become the inputs to another, we've introduced the notion of sequence. It perhaps naively seems that the act of taking the outputs of one fundamental interaction and putting it into another is itself "observation". Our notion of observation is very, very abstracted from that fundamental. Am I wrong?

We anthropologists long ago knew this to be true.

Robert, I just love your quest and channel. Personally, I think that ultimate reality simply is beyond our comprehension. Why should this be surprising? My little cat cannot comprehend how light goes on and off in our house and might never evolve to be able to d so. We are severely limited by our biological evolution. Perhaps one day our non-biological AI progeny will get it. But, even they won't be able to explain it to us…

Great ... I like that guy

Things interact with the environment in quantum mechanics. What those things are I don't think people really know. Is an electron really in two places at once or is the electron nowhere until its observed to be somewhere? How does an electron jump from one quantum state in an atom to another with no in-between state? How does the Heisenberg uncertainty principle fit in? I think people like the idea of an observer because they think it can apply to their everyday life and they like the idea that they can collapse the wave function for their own life (whatever such a wave function means) to make outcomes happen. That is too mystical for me.

...Please we are always Observing from the Inside out, because we are involved, either by experiment or from the sidelines thinking. We are not the...end all of all...respectfully, Chuck...captivus brevis...you tube...Blessings...

3:14 ... Define precisely decoherence SL: yeah so a wave is coherent if it can be added up in a way where you can uh detect the phase between the waves so I could have a wave that goes like that jor I could have a wave that goes like that now um here this part of the wave is negative in the other part this part of the wave is positive so in quantum mechanics the probability of finding something here is proportional to the amplitude of the wave but to the amplitude square so rather doesn't care whether it's positive or negative right so if you're going to find it here or there then here or there doesn't care about whether this amplitude is negative or whether this amplitude is positive but in the dynamics of a wave right you know it makes a lot of difference if this amplitude is negative or this amplitude is positive for instance if this is negative and this is positive these move on top of each other they cancel each other out this is called destructive interference so in quantum mechanics all the time you get situations where this amplitude makes a difference somehow and in measurement after you make measurement or in decoherence it doesn't make a difference any longer (okay) 4:26 so you could say decoherence is a process where the uh whether the amplitude is positive positive or negative no longer makes a difference and interaction with the environment will have aht effect 4:34

in quantum superposition, time might not be local?

Gigantic Orangutan is freak of nature. All these headlines from CTT are ridiculous. Yet we still love it.

An observer is a quantum mechanical system that is entangled with another quantum mechanical system that is under study.

If a cosmic ray passing through a mica sheet in the Himalayas leaves an irreversible trace on a mica sheet then the mica sheet acts in principle as an 'observer' (whether or not a living being is present to observe it). The real issue is: how does an irreversible reduction of the norm preserving wavefunction of the whole system can occur while maintaining its unitary evolution? The 'decoherence' argument merely provides a FAPP*-like explanation. For, it is based on a large scale 'phase mixing' of the wavefunction that, in principle, remains reversible. And so one may legitimately conclude that the 'decoherence' argument does not provide a rigorous in principle explanation of the required irreversible reduction.. // *FAPP = 'for all practical purposes'; an abbreviation introduced by J. Bell)

Every noun is a soul. Everything is alive, even though life isn't obvious in the very slowly living forms. This understanding makes physics obsolete.

I thought the observer was at rest in a time dimension observing the time dilation perspective of another's motion from that distance.

Many Worlds seems like a cop-out.

It depends on what the term observer means. it could mean any particle that impinges upon another. The other end of that spectrum of observer is consciousness that existed before the universe began. I find that absurd because there is no logical way to explain how that observer became to be. And no, no theological explanation actually explains anything.

Combine all measurement(of position, momentum, energy, probability etc.) apparatuses or machines in one machine and this resulting machine may be taken as the approximate observer ! The approximate observer will become the perfect observer when we finally crack the code of the universe ! Do not treat "human" as observer as they are subjective and biased !

Only a Living Being, can be Observer, with the Ability to Observe, Consciousness, Observation can Only happends through Sensing, = Motion, the Sensed 'object' is Motion, and our Sensing-Organs, is Motion, it is all Motion.

Closer to Confusion

I'm dizzy!! 🥴

If a singe photon could disrupt a supperpostion of states, there would be no supperposition of states. Every point in spacetime has an EM field that is continuously interacting with itself via the exchange of photons, and yet supperposition exists.

Everything is everything is nothing

Has anyone ever had the thought that gravity is just some potential energy function which could be incorparated in the hamiltonian of the schrodinger equation? I suppose thats where the mathematical inconsistences show up as are mentioned often. Kind of off topic but I thought this is maybe the right audience to ask.

1:45 Yes Humans' were not there but we are now and are sentient and conscious of our own existence, hence all the questions. It is a tad presumptuous to assume that we are the first creatures to ponder such things. 3:15 Interaction within the local environment of other interacting waves is quite the best way to go in understanding decoherence. What is so funny is that some folks watching this are going to think He is and Eco Warrior because of his long hair and beautiful setting of the conversation .. that is entirely not what he means by environment. I could be wrong of course. Shame about the Avogadro number of photons comment but be honest Many Worlds is based upon possibility being certain, a statistical nonsense ... like Shakespeare's Monkeys on the road to Clarksville. 8:00 Boy oh Boy did he blow his own toes off and not answer the question of this video . Fun though. A tsunami of suppostional waves is not the same as 1+1= 2.

Like any simulation, if there are no players/observors, there is no game.

the one capacity (attribute) that may exist only within the human as a variation within material life form, is that of an "observer" "bring thyself unto account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning" This be-ing "aincient" Still today examples . In Japanese culture "hansei" self reflection In self-re-flective practice can be attained perception outside of ones own physical be-ing. Some have called these verities "astral" They are not limited to the dream realm or confined by material con-struct that we see as reality. The greatest veil be-ing, in terms of "business" "conflict of interest" Yet to a reality with bus-i-ness experience it is simply individual "confirmation bias" that is the greater veil. What if the bias was "all good bias" would the "bad" go by us? bi, by, bye, "buy" bye, bye not here!

If the universe goes unobserved by consciousness, does the universe matter? Mattering is a state of mind.

Sith Lord implies that there is indeed Cosmic Consciousness which can be God , and that we are all created in the image and likeness of God as Pro-creators, thus we can affect particles by collapsing its wave function

Has decoherence ever been observed?

simple - it's all the MATRIX

The biggest problem with the Observer is that he / she also needs an observer ad infinitum.

Electrons were also never measured to be in 2 places at the same time. Just to be clear, sating they are is a metaphor and not science.

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If they can’t even define what the environment is then decoherence is no explanation. It sounds more like hypothesis.

In this video, Sabine Hossenfelder describes why decoherence *doesn't* solve the measurement problem. So there *is* some disagreement among physicists. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n82jqKymrsWscYU.html

wave-particle duality might explain how mathematical objects - prob functions - give rise to physical objects - particles it’s a candidate for how probabilistic math becomes physical reality

3:14 That was an atrocious attempt at defining decoherence.

Why does "animal" run away from danger@death@predator ?? Do they conscious???

🤔 does the human mind influence it?

We observers are a created AI within the created AI system. What separates us is our created minds that are like computer processors, CAD and Photoshop working together to process invisible waves (quantum world) into visible images that also wakes up the AI, the observer of those images.

“Certainly there were quantum mechanical things going on in the early universe… (before humans)” Certainly? Is that an argument? Ok so certainly, therefore true? What? That’s a big metaphysical assumption

if Time and Space are IDEAL then does the ideal have a seeing ?

"It only takes one photon bouncing off of me to make me be either here or there" Except quantum field theory tells us there are no such thing as distinct particles "bouncing off" each other, but just a series over overlapping/connected fields stretching across the entire universe, and particles are just patterns of excitation in those fields....

Cosmos needs minimum wage rate

Observers are what humans are. The universe does not exist without observation of it. For where and in what sense does it exist if nothing observes it? Before observers existed, perhaps the universe existed in some weird platonic sense. Then when observers came into existence they gave breadth to space and intervals of time. For example, an hour to an electron is no different than an eon to the electron. The hour and the eon are indistinguishable to the electron since the electron does not observe. The Big bang, was the first observer, giving breadth to the universe. "We don't want humans around to say things exist". This is the abuse of science. You shouldn't "want" anything, other than the truth.

This guest is really smart. But every time I see him, I can’t help but ask why he doesn’t cut that hair. He’s holding onto scraps. And the ponytail is not helping. Thanks for the interesting interview.

They were no observers before us

God is the Observer

Same old debate between the part vs whole…

There is no beginning, nor end. There is no limit. The fourth dimension is infinite. The Fifth has the same character as those other dimensions. How could it contain the infinite? (You are trapped by your mind.)

4:37 Look I bet this comment won't get pinned or like but if replied I'll do 10 push ups which won't happen I hope.

God is quantum in nature, because he is with you and me simultaneously.

'God's circumference is nowheres, and God's center is everywhere.' This is too much for the supercillous troglodytes to comprehend.