[FRIAM] A Question For Tomorrow

[Nick Thompson]

The Schrodinger's cat can be both dead and un-dead, but I cannot know a thing and not know it, except by equivocating on the meaning of "know".  I don't think quantum theory applies to logic in the familiar world.  Or does it?  Am I wrong to be bloody minded about people who bring "lessons from quantum theory" into day-to-day macro-world scientific arguments?  

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


-----Original Message-----
From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 10:10 PM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A Question For Tomorrow

Nick -

> That's both a tautology AND an oxymoron. 

Did you just exclude the law of the excluded middle?  How very human of you!
>  
>  "How do we explain consciousness?" in any way that is not inane.  
> (Geez, was that a quadruple negative?)
And a 4 dimensional version of same?  


- Steve


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