Re: [Zen] Why bother with Zazen? Better a Roulette

[ED]

> The collapse of these distributions into the macro world is not
currently understood, but it seems to have something to do with the
interactions between small systems and the whole mass of reality.



Possibly the best way to get a handle on wave-function collapse and its
interaction with the environment is via the concept of 'quantum
decoherence':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence>

--ED


--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, ChrisAustinLane <chris@...> wrote:
>
> Current systems of quantum mechanics are deterministic but do not
determine what happens, but determine probability distributions.
>
> The collapse of these distributions into the macro world is not
currently understood, but it seems to have something to do with the
interactions between small systems and the whole mass of reality.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Austin-Lane