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>From Osher Doctorow mdoctorow@xxxxxxxxxxx
There's a new paper in arXiv: "Two party pseudo telepathy games," by I.
Chakrabarty, Heritage Institute of Technology, West Bengal India,
quant-ph/0612221 v1 28 Dec 2006.
Basically, it tries to show that only with quantum entanglement can a
certain type of game be won, and its second claim is that for another
type of game the classical world can't win either deterministically or
probabilistically but a perfect quantum strategy exists for it which if
followed yields the winning condition.
Physicists resist calling the macroscopic world "entangled", though it
would make sense to propose this in the interest of generalizing and
also in the interest of finding common features of quantum and
non-quantum physics, but the current trend among the Mainstream of
Ingenious Imitators is to Know-Nothing about such common features and
to generalize only the work of Founding Fathers or Mothers.
Chakrabarty might have gotten tongue-tied had somebody proposed
generalizing "entanglement" to macroscopic physics at least in the
biological-physics interface or intersection, since then he would have
to explain why the Classical or Macroscopic World can't apply the ideas
of the Quantum world. If this seems to be an endless circle to you,
then you can always get out of it by achieving Nirvana through either
meditation or insight (I'm inclined toward insight) or even by becoming
a Nonconformist (which I also like). Hopefully, Chakrabarty will get
further than Sir Roger Penrose's friend Hammerstein at Arizona State U.
who appears to be following microtubules through a merry-go-round
endlessly while excommunicating out-group contributors who don't fit
his precise conditions (he's trying to give microtubules and "mind" a
"good name" in the Mainstream through his (if I recall the name
correctly) Psyche-D forum.
As for the rest of us, we can always open a Telepathic Entanglement
branch in some future "arXiv" on one of our return cycles if any, and
even a Clairvoyance Entanglement branch. The only question is, what to
say on them. If one lives on the Planet of the Apes, what good is it
to talk with Apes?
With that, I close this thread. And a Wise New Year to us all.
Osher Doctorow
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