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- From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
- Subject: Re: Quantum (and untutored Zen) and Beliefs (was Re: Absolutes)
- References: <1992Dec10.223721.4614@data-io.com> <1govt3INN2cl@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec17.183956.8992@data-io.com> <1992Dec22.185411.29489@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:13:30 GMT
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- >Liralen (aka Phyllis Rostykus) writes:
- >> ... I'm talking more about situations like Schrodinger's Cat which is, in
- >>essense, both there and not there at the same time, yes? The example you give
- >>is something which can be determined. The questions I'm asking are things
- >>which *cannot* be determined with any accuracy in any reportable manner.
- >>
- >>So like the cat, which may be there or not there at the same time, so with
- >>beliefs which are unobservable and undocumentable. Both true and false at
- >>the same time.
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- bernard, the jedi squire in training, says:
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- >If everybody is bored to tears by this discussion, I offer my apologies in
- >advance. This is my first posting to alt.callahans and I ought to try to
- >avoid offending people, after all...
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- >I just wanted to make a small observation about Schrodinger's Cat:
- >We may not know if the cat is alive or dead.
- >But, certainly, the _cat_ must have observed something!
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- "i don't know about bored....but the schrodinger's cat thing has
- always made me nervous" giggles kitten. "welcome to callahans....we
- are VERY hard to offend...."
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