determinism was the greatest mental leap of the Enlightenment, and these fools just dropped it.
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Anonymous2006-12-31 13:36
schroedinger's cat is a poor counter-argument to uncertainty, because interaction with the cat acts as the measurement on the decaying particle. the only reason it's remained slightly interesting is because the observer, being outside the box, has no way of knowing whether the cat has died or not yet, simply because we give up your ability to make any inferences about the cat's health. the cat, on the other hand, can be presumed to know whether it is still alive. people mistake this for a comment on the absurdity of uncertainty, when it is more accurately just a silly experiment in which the observer would have no means of concluding anything after until he/she looked inside.