The tree falling in the forest is not even there

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041220/full/041220-12.html [Published: 24-Dec-04 | Permalink | Category: Science seen]
(This reads to me like an April Fool story or one of those spoof of pseudoscientific gobbledygook to me but they seem po-faced enough so you never know.) Apparently--working on the assumption that the available interpretations of quantum phenomena are more than just metaphors close to or at breaking point--objective reality is a consensus of possible realities selected by a process of iterative observer enquiry which they call "quantum darwinism". Decoherence is a democratic process as repeated observations incline subgroups of quantum states asymptotically towards a simulacrum of objective reality. Sounds more like incoherence than decoherence? Wait for the New Scientist article.

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