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RE: Arthur C. Clarke explained this phenomena.

Bill

Thanks for providing the laugh of the week after a bout with the flu! Awhile ago I read a book titled The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking by Matthew Hutson. From the title it sounds like a self help guide to lay some voodoo on your difficult boss, but it's really about the fact that magical thinking is the default mode for our animal brains, and it lurks just below the surface of our highly developed logical and scientific brains. A favorite anecdote involves the physicist Niels Bohr, who was a contemporary of Einstein on quantum physics, and was one of the few people who could go toe-to-toe with Einstein in a debate about quantum theory. Another scientist was once visiting Bohr, and while being shown around the property, he noticed a horseshoe which had been hung above the door of a shed, a typical country custom for good luck. He wryly pointed out to Bohr that this was un-scientific, and Bohr replied "I understand that it works even if you don't believe in it".

Reproduced music is an illusion, and sometimes it's hard to say just where Clarke's bar begins and ends.

Paul


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