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Does the locality of physical uniqueness allow death and decay?

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Something needs to be decoherent to have entropy. To have cyclical time ..to age.
All of the concepts of decoherence, entropy and cyclical, imply time. All three require a human mind, which can't make any sense without the concept of time.

Time is what a human mind brings with it, wherever an observation of anything is made by it.
Time doesn't have to be a 'something' which exists independently from a perceiving mind.
 
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Something needs to be decoherent to have entropy. To have cyclical time ..to age.
Having entropy and ageing are not the same. Ageing implies an increase in entropy. It is possible to define the entropy of an isolated quantum system and its eigenstates.
 
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I think you'll find it is. QM is a physical theory, and the quantum 'No Cloning' theorem means it must be unique.

It is saying the opposite ..non-local waves are not even real, how are you going to clone something that isn't physical?
 
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Particles are real ..decoherent.
But not real before decoherence?

Waves are future possibilities of something becoming real.
That's one interpretation... so what is the 'something' before it becomes real? What is it that decoheres?

How do you define 'real' in this context?
 
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Wave-Particle Duality is not usually at the same moment in time.
The 'something' is quantum information. An interference pattern can only happen if all possible paths are virtually taken.
Information isn't lost to the environment, it is used to build a physical particle ..decoherence.

Real is something that has a single possible path.
 
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Wave-Particle Duality is not usually at the same moment in time.
The 'something' is quantum information. An interference pattern can only happen if all possible paths are virtually taken.
Information isn't lost to the environment, it is used to build a physical particle ..decoherence.

Real is something that has a single possible path.
So quantum information isn't real, but is used to build real particles?
 
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