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Article 6093 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu (Stephen P Spackman)
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Subject: Re: Quantum mechanics (no AI here, sorry)
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In-Reply-To: holmes@opal.idbsu.edu's message of 4 Jun 92 23:14:01 GMT

It really seems to me that if the state information is not directly
observable, there's no problem with it being "superluminal". After
all, the problem with FTL "information" transmission is an intutive
one, but the intuitions it offends are those honed by questions of
_observability_, which is precisely what is _not_ at issue here. You
may be seeing global effects, but locality isn't "leaking".

Or perhaps I'm being dense.

$0.02
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stephen p spackman         Center for Information and Language Studies
stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu                    University of Chicago
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