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>From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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Subject: Re: QM nonsense
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Date: 24 Feb 92 18:52:10 GMT
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In-reply-to: pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)

In article <1992Feb24.175312.15374@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, pindor@gpu (Andrzej Pindor) writes:
>>I wouldn't say that's an assumption--it's an experimental observation!
>>We do observe a classical world.

>Are you aware of _macroscopic_ quantum phenomena?

Yes.

>[esoteric examples omitted]

A rainbow qualifies....

Meanwhile, it's not an assumption that 

>>>the human mind has some mysterious, presumably non-physical,
>>>capability that induces decoherence.

It's an experimental observation that we do observe [<100% of the time] a
classical world.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)


