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In Reply to: Re: Schrodinger's Cat posted by geoffkait on February 23, 2001 at 09:09:44:
I'm familiar with the Schroedinger's Cat paradox. It's an interesting thought experiment and I think it's getting at something profound about our connection to the world as supposed individuals through observation. Our concepts of entities versus the world are binary, black and white, when the truth lies somewhere in the fuzziness. (I like Lofti Zadeh's work on fuzzy logic and George Lakoff's work on embodied cognition).I don't know if you can generalize the thought experiment to PWB rainbow foil or red scribbles improving audio quality. There are way too many arbitrary factors involved. Any effects would be washed out in the noise. This is why careful science needs to be undertaken, and there are already established methods and institutions for doing so.
Andrew
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