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Re: Schrodinger's Cat

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I think we, as individuals, often don't recognize which baggage should be discarded and which should be kept. The proposition that we can discriminate the "wheat from the chaff" is often based solely on pure arbitrariness and the (flawed) belief that our knowledge is either complete or good enough to make a "rational" decision. Looking back, I think that personal prejudice and arbitrariness enters the picture more than we (I) realize or are willing to admit. As time goes by, the things we used to reject are embraced and vice versa. Then, a while later the tables are turned again. To a large extent we just don't have the ammunition to make an intelligent choice in these (audio) matters frequently. Our own personal knowledge (at the time) leads us to make certain decisions/commitments, Solid State vs Tubes or Digital vs Analog, to use two wear-worn examples of debatable arguments, belief systems you could say. There are both sides to these arguments, would you agree? Have you read the book, Time's Arrow and Archimedes Point (Huw Price)? - a philosopher's attempt to link the two fields of philosophy and quantum physics. It is rough reading, perhaps you would be more attuned to it than I by virtue of your coursework. You might like the original 1935 paper by Schrodinger (contains the "Schrodinger's Cat" analogy) on quantum mechanics and "action at a distance" that he wrote in response to Einstein's paper of the same year on the same subject. A brief description of Schrodinger cat paradox can be found at:

http://www.mtnmath.com/faq/meas-qm-faq-3.html


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