[FRIAM] A Question For Tomorrow

[Marcus Daniels]

Uncertainty means that every scenario must be considered.   Surely you've had to run experiments where there was missing data (like a superposition state) and surely you've had to use p-values?  Or are you saying there is a property of quantum systems beyond probability that seems irrelevant to you?

On 5/1/19, 12:09 AM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:

    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
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    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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