In quantum mechanics, there is a common philosophical (epistemological) confusion whereby a mathematical model is mistaken for a physical observation or entity. Due to this common philosophical confusion even amongst professional physicists, QM is frequently mystified especially by non-physicists.
The ‘strangeness’ of the probabilistic concepts of QM merely owe to physicists misconstruing them as actual physical entities, whereas to mathematicians there is nothing even remotely strange about statistical probabilities or probability amplitudes. These ‘strange’ notions are further erroneously used by non-physicists to account for various ‘spiritual’ claims. By saying this I am not implying that spiritual claims are automatically untrue. I am merely highlighting the bunkum in misinterpreting quantum physics as metaphysics.
The quantum-mechanical statement that ‘measurement/observation causes a wave function collapse’ (reinforced by the Quantum Zeno effect) ... Read even more
