Episode 6.24: How decoherence helps solve the subjectivity problem quantum mechanics may create.

We should not understand the uncertainties of the quantum world as a reflection of human uncertainty and therefore as the projections of human psychology and consciousness. Instead we should understand any persistent structure as an observer arising from the interactions or entanglements between structures as the sources of the persistent entities that we find and identify with the classical world. We create the meaning that we find in the world to reinforce our sense of separateness and significance, that we matter in the world, but ultimately we no more matter to the universe than the ant matter to us. Far from being bleak, this should help us to reorientate our sense of our own importance in a way that makes life more intelligible than it would otherwise be and so frame our problems with a better perspective.