Visitors questions and answers
I invite visitors to ask questions, which I then answer. Here are two questions from Sudipta Ghosh from India:
Who collapse the wave function? We or God?
Your question has some sticky definition issues associated to it. I am assuming that you view God as a being external to yourself with emotions, its own will and plan for the universe. In this definition the collapse of the wave function becomes rather complex, but I will try and give you my view on it before I give you another view based on a different perspective of God. Like gravity is a natural law and an apple will from a tree, the collapse of the wave function is a natural law.
Whether it is I or God who makes the apple fall from the tree is immaterial as there is a natural law governing the process. You might argue that God had created that law and therefore by implication it is God that controls gravity through his/her/its divine creation. That could be one perspective but then really negates the need for a God as the creator could then set up the whole universe with laws at creation and then depart from creation or even expire, while creation will continue. So this does not seem satisfactory. The collapse of the wave function is a little bit more complex than gravity (or so it seems). Let's look at the double slit experience. Your second email suggest that the instrument has no consciousness yet there is a collapse.
What you fail to recognize is that consciousness is really intention to measure and attention to the process, while the measuring device is just the means for doing so. Remove the intension and the consciousness behind the device and there will be no collapse. The collapse of the wave function is really the attention given to the object (electrons) by a conscious being. This in itself is interesting and now brings God into the equation and my own view of God (as opposed to the view I assume you hold). If I am God and you are God and every single living organism with consciousness is God then consciousness is indeed God.
How, you may ask? Well think of a kidney cell. If I had to ask a single kidney cell whether it is a kidney it would say that it is ridiculous "I am only a cell of a kidney" it might reply. If I were to ask a kidney what it consist of it will reply "I am the collection of my cells" So what is a kidney then? Cells - surely no individual cell can be called a kidney and yet it is in the collective that the organ called kidney is formed. Likewise as a human, what am I other than collection of my organs. Is my kidney part of me? Sure! It is me? No, not entirely. Therein lies the mystery of God. Am I God? No more than a single kidney cell is a kidney? What is God? The collective of all conscious beings much like the kidney is the collective of all its cells. From that perspective it is I and yet it is God who collapse the wave function and in that way I become co-creator with God as I am indeed also God without having the ability to claim divinity in my own individual right.
Is the reality is taking birth every moment?if so where is my free will of choice?
As I have eluded to before, this really is a matter of the definition of time. If you view time as a continuous flow with the future ahead of us and the past behind us, then you might concern yourself with the moment of creation. However, if time becomes a mere dimension like length, width and height then it becomes immaterial when things happen.
Think of it like this. If I place a stone on a road and ask you where is the stone, it really becomes a matter of your relative position whether you will answer "It is here" or "It is there". The stone has not moved, it is only your relative position to the stone that has moved. Since you are not bound in the 3 of the 4 dimensions you can freely move to the stone and answer "It is here" and again move away from the stone and answer "It is there". Where it actually is becomes immaterial as it is a function of where you are. What gets most people is that you are not so free to move through the 4th dimension so that you can't go hence and forth like you can in the other three dimensions. Thus you look at an event "over there" (called it past) and ask yourself when did this happen. Yet, like the stone had not moved, it is really only your perspective of where the event is that makes you ask "when". If you could freely move in the fourth dimension your answer would be as relative as it was with respect to the stone.
So, to get to your question. Creation happens. It is completely free of the notion of time as we know it as it is not bound by it. Think of a three dimensional world as opposed to a four dimensional (like we live in - visible dimensions, scientist now believe there are 10 dimensions) - like the stone on the road. A stone may be placed here (a meter from you) then there (a 100m from you) then here again and then there again, completely at random. It is immaterial in what order it happens eventually the road will be full of stones and it would seem completely normal to you. I my mind creation is the same. As much as things that I do today can have bearing on my future, it may also have bearing on my past. It is just that when things from my future have bearings on my present I have no reference to see the connection (because of my boundness to the fourth dimension) and would be tempted to regard it is as supernatural, yet if things in my past affect my life today, I see the connection and call it consequence or casualty. It is really only your perspective on time that makes the difference.
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