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Old 08-11-2003, 08:04 AM   #16 (permalink)
RoadRage
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Originally posted by CSflim
Neils Bohr would disagree. The tree hasn't fallen until someone has seen it on the ground! And that fucking cat isn't dead till someone says it is!
You're thinking of Schroedinger's cat, nothing to do with Neils Bohr.

I've always thought it extremely egotistical to suppose that nothing has happened until someone observes it. Existence is independent of observers or their mindsets.
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