Hi randman;
Thanks for the link. What follows are merely my rambling speculations, made up 'ex tempore', just for fun. You can stop right here, or read as much of this daydreaming as suits you.
I would take from it [rightly or wrongly] that an original particle does not exist in space and time until some element of 'observation/perception' brings it into a meaningless, tentative, existence by bestowing temporal 'properties' upon it, [that is, creates a 'datum']. Same for another [gazillion?] particles/data brouight into existence in the same manner. Each distinct from any other, and hence meaningless, information free.
Vacuous, that is,until a simultaneous observation/perception of two or more such 'data bits' enables property/identity comparison, and that comparison,
a/creates meaning, significance, information, and b/ instills 'entanglement', that is instills a linkage/melding of properties/identities, that, as 'information/meaning/significance', lasts forever, i,e. for as long as it is, or can be, observed/perceived; anywhere, anytime, by any observer/perceiver. That is, data/property measurement is bounded and limited by time and space, but information [the property of entangled data], is not.
That means that the entire issue rest on the question of whether or not particles, hence atoms, hence molecules, hence systems, possess, 'in se', the ability to observe/perceive themselves endogenously, or is some other 'something' required that does the 'observing' that they cannot. That is, do these entities direct themselves, or does some 'third party'/element/power have to observe them, exogenously? The answer, IMO, depends upon whether 'particles' are uncreated and eternal, or not. Because if a particle is created, if it has a beginning, then it must either be its own creation, or the creation of something else.
Now it would seem to me to be irrational to claim that anything can create itself, 'ex nihilo, ab nihilo', i.e., out of nothingness, unassisted. Futher it would seem to me that anything built of and dependent upon such self-generating entities would be equally magical and random/indeterminate. From particles all the way along to ourselves and our own minds. That is, existence entire, reality per se, would have to be be irrational if every particle could perceive and be aware, for itself, of itself, by itself.
But we see a rational, at least partially predictable universe. Which suggest to me that particles are not that which observes particles. And the same for atoms and molecules and inanimate systems composed of them. But at some point systems of 'entangled' particles and interrelated molecules form observant, aware systems--biosystems, organisms. Perhaps these have become capable of 'channeling perception', i.e., observing data and creating new information by,through,and for the information already generated by the original incorporeal 'observer'. Like I say, just speculating, and not meaning to suggest that this uncreated, eternal, self-obsering observer, is 'god' in the standard religious understanding for that word.
Anyway, its only speculation, if you bothered to read this far.
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