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11 Oct 2024 07:12:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fatal curiosity  
From: Darren New
Date: 14 Jan 2008 02:21:54
Message: <478b0d92@news.povray.org>
Sherry Shaw wrote:

> *cat* knows what happened."  

That was exactly the point of the thought-experiment. At what level of 
sophistication does the "observer" collapse the possibilities? The 
argument was over whether having instruments there was sufficient to 
"collapse the wave form", or whether someone actually had to look at the 
instruments.

</fuddyduddy>

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.


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