Robert Anton Wilson
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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.
…why William Burroughs is a male in this universe and a female in that universe. Every possibility is equally real. Schrödinger invented this gedanken experiment, or goddammit experiment, I think is the English Translation of that to bring to the forefront…
…appeared as a wave when I measured it with what I thought was this apparatus and go into sort of an infinite regress. Schrödinger created what's called the schrödinger's cat problem, which goes as follows: you take a cat you put it in a box you put…
…cat is and is not dead. Once you open the door the state vector collapses and the cat's either dead or alive. Schrödinger invented that because, although he was one of the major creators of quantum mechanics he was very uncomfortable with its philosophical…
…light is waiting to see how we're going to do the experiment and then deciding which way it's going to travel. Schrödinger said: I wish I never got mixed up with this verdampte quantum springerite, this goddamn quantum jumping. The modified Copenhagen view…