New Cities/New Soviets

October 22, 2003

Uncertainty Explained

Heisenberg's Uncertianty priciple is used to justify all sorts of spooky bullshit. Molly explains:

"The Uncertainty Priciple says that when you look for a thing, you may not be able to see something else. It does not say that you cannot see the thing you are looking for! It says that if you are looking for something else about the thing you may have to take a different tack."


Molly continues: "It's the phallacy of total observation: that you could absorb everything all at once."

Sam: "...because observation is partial! That's it's fucking point!"

Molly: "You see something when you look for it. that doesn't meen it didn't exist before you looked for it, it just means you couldn't see it before you looked for it."

It is not simple to build an alternative system of location.

Also:

Molly: "The amount of joy that you can get as a solo contracter is insufficient to sustain an entire life. It's never going to be enough. If you can't get joy from other people's joy you are sunk, my friend. It's like you're working in addition and everyone else is working in exponents."

Posted by Sam at October 22, 2003 09:05 AM

Sounds to me like this molly character is top notch.

I'm a start off by being too vague. Don't some things make themselves known whether or not you look for them?

Posted by: Eric Blair at October 28, 2003 01:05 PM

maybe its still spooky at least in words

never have gotten it to stick
its in the math somewhere
as a metaphor i shy because
the man-aphor behind it was a pig krout
long live klaus fuchs

Posted by: meat me at October 29, 2003 06:31 PM

we am indeed a collection of others reciprocities
even our ownself produced joy needs
phantom empathy
there must be a friday be4 even his footsteps are found

Posted by: meat me at October 29, 2003 06:38 PM

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