Re: Evolution is NOT random


Virgil <Virgil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:-

I understand that the unaided human eye, under suitable circumstances,
can detect a single quantum of light impinging on the retina.
That strikes me as being a quantum event perceived without the aid of
any machine.

JE:-
I don't think that the perception of one photon via the unaided human
eye (if true) would validly allow the claim that the human eye can
perceive unaided, one quantum event.
If the mind of that human perceives what his/her eye detected, which is
implied, most others would allow it, and justifiably so.

JE:-
IMO the detection of one photon by the human eye does not constitute the
detection of one quantum _event_. For example, that would require the
unaided human eye to be able to perceive one electron moving
simultaneously from one quantum level to another. While this may be
perceived as a change in the color of the light emitted, the claim that
the unaided human eye has actually perceived one QUANTUM CHANGE is not
correct. A single quantum change is proposed as instantaneous (they
require no time at all) which is way too fast and can only happen with
way too small entities for the human eye to be able to perceive them as
a bona fide change in matter.

You choose to DEFINE quantum events as those imperceptible to humans
without some sort of mechanical assistance.
I do not.

JE:-
No, I argued (above) that quantum changes cannot be perceived using just
the human senses. IOW, a machine is required to observe a quantum change.

Quantum theory is not a theory of a causative process just a theory of a
pattern (a perception). Only a proposed falsifiable process my be able
to explain a documented empirical pattern including the quantum pattern.
Mathematics which s used to produce this pattern cannot separate a
process from a pattern because it has no frame of reference to be able
to do so.


Regards,

John Edser



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