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- From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
- Subject: Re: Unbe Awakens
- Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:07:00 +0000
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec24.215757.4142@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
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- doublethink... can you actually do it? I mean *really *truly
- *consciously believe that this is X and this is not X? I can't and
- I've tried a lot. I don't mean tricks where something is a bit of
- this and a bit of that, I mean a realio, trulio absolute
- contradiction. Can you believe that? As I learnt it, the fact that we
- *can't believe contradictions like that is what makes logic (first
- order) work at all, even as a tiny subset of the world. I think it's
- thinking like that that makes it difficult for me to grasp quanta
- stuff and wave/particle states and Schroedinger's cat.... surely it
- must be either *one or the *other?????? (Sorry, not a good discussion
- to start!)
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- Mary with her merry tail in a puzzled knot
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- | Ommmmmm, said the lift |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
- | Organisation: Me? You're joking, right? |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp |
- |I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-) |
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