experience = sum over histories?

From: rmiller <rmiller.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 12:41:14 -0500

At 11:20 AM 6/2/2005, Hal Finney wrote:
>(snip)
>
>All these examples are meant to show that we act as though we care about
>giving good experiences even though we know they will be forgotten and
>not have lasting impact. If we extend that principle more generally,
>I think it follows that we should try to have good experiences on days
>when we have high measure.
>
>Hal Finney

I've always thought that QM offered great tools for social scientists, and
here's another example. Is it worthwhile to consider a life as the sum of
experiences along a given track of the world line, or can we borrow from
Feynman and view life as a "sum over histories?" If so, it might explain
false memories, love at first sight and coincidence.

Richard Miller
Received on Thu Jun 02 2005 - 13:52:56 PDT