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Invisible wrote:
> I wonder... would it be safe to eat this stuff? Is it nutritious? Mmm,
> interesting...
I much the same manner as I've been wondering if the green/white lump in
the back of the fridge is a piece of forgotten blue cheese or something
that will begin showing intelligence any day now.
Care to give that a taste while you're at it and render an opinion? ;)
As someone else said. Imagine the conversation at the hospital, then
imagine the roaring laughter of the doctors and staff ...
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> As someone else said. Imagine the conversation at the hospital, then
> imagine the roaring laughter of the doctors and staff ...
I think they would be already used to people a lot more stupid.
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>> I wonder... would it be safe to eat this stuff? Is it nutritious? Mmm,
>> interesting...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_Kills_the_Cat
>
So, I was just sitting here thinking, "Oh, that's cool--there's a link
minute, waaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiit a minute........It doesn't matter
*cat* knows what happened." But then I thought, "...unless he's dead,
for, as noted in the book of Ecclesiastes, 'the dead know not anything.'"
Sooooooooo.......If the cat's alive, he *thinks* he's alive, therefore
he thinks, therefore he am--erm, "is." But if the cat's dead, he
doesn't know it, therefore he's indeterminate and not actually dead at
all. Then, of course, there's the possibility that every time you put a
cat in a box, you create a parallel universe. But, hey, every time I
run my can opener, an angel gets its wings.
Oh, that reminds me, it's time to feed the cats.
--Sherry "Crazy Cat Lady" Shaw
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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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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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Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote:
> "If nobody can observe you, you don't exist."
Perhaps that answers the question "If a tree falls in a forest and no one
is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
--
- Warp
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> --Sherry "Crazy Cat Lady" Shaw
LOL! I can *so* picture that...
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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Tim Cook wrote:
> "If nobody can observe you, you don't exist."
I have this feeling almost every day...
It's like I'm invisible or something. Oh, wait...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Warp wrote:
> Perhaps that answers the question "If a tree falls in a forest and no one
> is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
So... if a man speaks in a forest and no women is there to hear him...
is he still wrong?
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> As someone else said. Imagine the conversation at the hospital, then
>> imagine the roaring laughter of the doctors and staff ...
>
> I think they would be already used to people a lot more stupid.
Lamentably yes...
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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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