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- From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
- Subject: Re: Quantum (and untutored Zen) and Beliefs (was Re: Absolutes)
- References: <1992Dec17.183956.8992@data-io.com> <1992Dec22.185411.29489@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <Bzou2J.6s1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <BzqqIr.F0t@cs.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:36:06 GMT
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- >[snip]
- >>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...
- >>
- >>>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...."
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- >"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."
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- >"So worst case the cat is just a might peckish."
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- kitten, licking orange danish icing off her fingers says,
- "hhhhmmmmmphhhhhh. personally, i think that is a VERY bad case!"
- GGB*
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- *grin giggle and bounce
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- conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten /\ /\ barbara ann
- "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?" {=.=}
- ~ trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
- "love is the wild card of existance"
- rita mae brown
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