Darren New wrote:
> Sherry Shaw wrote:
>> whether or not Schrödinger's Lab Assistant looks in the box, because 
>> the *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>

"If nobody can observe you, you don't exist."

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.digitalartsuk.com

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