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- From: korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz)
- Subject: Re: Quantum (and untutored Zen) and Beliefs (was Re: Absolutes)
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- Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec17.183956.8992@data-io.com> <1992Dec22.185411.29489@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <Bzou2J.6s1@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:52:03 GMT
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- In article <Bzou2J.6s1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
- [snip]
- >bernard, the jedi squire in training, says:
- >
- >>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...
- >
- >>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!
- >
- >"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...."
-
- "kitten," frood pops in from wherever, "I ran across another
- formulation of the gedanken-experiment in last err, July's, Scientific
- American, that should leave you and your spirit-kin less nervous. The
- idea of a probabilistic trigger is the same however the gas is
- replaced by milk. Without dane-ing to delve into the manifold
- interpretations of what happens before or when checking, the cat is
- found either well fed by released milk or not well fed."
-
- "So worst case the cat is just a might peckish."
-
- am i always trying [to] pun?
- i'm not quite certain
- frood
-