[Lnc-business] Motion to Amend Policy for Automatic Approval of Minutes

Joshua Katz planning4liberty at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 18:10:51 EST 2018


How will listening help?  How long must we listen before concluding that no
meow is forthcoming?

In any event, I think the references to Schrodinger's Cat here have been
entirely correct.  Although it's been misused to demonstrate "look how cool
science is," the point of Schrodinger's thought experiment was that an
interpretation (the Copenhagen interpretation) which led to such a
consequence was wrong.  It was a reductio.  (The Copenhagen interpretation
had accepted such behavior but promised it was contained, so to speak, at
the microscopic level.  A simple way to sum up that argument would be the
casino argument: the micro weirdness is like the unpredictable results of
hands of blackjack, while the macro world, where we do not see such
weirdness, except in the LP, is like the casino's ability to predict its
average results over a year of play.  Schrodinger's point was that, if we
tolerate weirdness at the micro level, we can't keep it there, because we
can force an individual interaction to have macro effects.  The micro world
doesn't only exist to be summed up and averaged, we're also able, through
various mechanisms, to interact with it directly.)  The point we're
supposed to take from it is an acceptance of the Schrodinger pilot-wave
interpretation.

So, while I agree that Schrodinger's alternates are not something we should
have, or something our bylaws meant to create, I don't think this points to
any deep mystery.  I think it points to a mistake.

Joshua A. Katz


On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos <caryn.ann.harlos at lp.org>
wrote:

> ===Was I the only one hoping that an alternate would say "meow"?====
>
> Or not.  We don’t know which it is until we listen.  Or not.
>
> -Caryn Ann
>
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 3:21 PM Daniel Hayes <daniel.hayes at lp.org> wrote:
>
>> I will cosponsor “members and alternates”.
>>
>> Daniel Hayes
>> LNC At Large Member
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> > On Jan 3, 2018, at 4:16 PM, Alicia Mattson <alicia.mattson at lp.org>
>> wrote:
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