Ch. 21 Wigner's Friend, or Whodunit? (6/22-6/28)
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- Classify the following propositions as true, false, meaningless or merely currently indeterminate.
A. The U.S. Air Force has several dead extra-terrestrials hidden in a hanger at Edwards Air Force Base.
B. This exercise contains thirteen propositions.
C. All propositions in this exercise are false.
D. No good cop ever takes a bribe.
E. The function of public education consists of killing curiosity, encouraging docility, and preparing mindless drones to work for corporations.
F. Gorbachev has an advantage over everybody else in the Politburo because he remains sober when the rest of them have all gotten drunk.
G. Proposition B is false.
H. Proposition G is false.
I. God loves everybody, even serial killers, rapists and C.I.A. agents.
J. All propositions are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.-
Try living for one day with this (possibly) self-fulfilling prophecy: "I am dumb and unattractive and nobody likes me."
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Try living for one day with this program: "I am brilliant and attractive and everybody likes me."
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Decide which of the two above exercises you liked best, and try living with that program for a full month.
Observe all old programs that re-assert themselves and interfere with this exercise.
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Statements to live by (and possibly drive you insane):
"Please remember that we deal always with probabilities, not certitudes..." (Page 178)
"'Existence precedes essence,' remember?" (Page 179)
"(1) We cannot make meaningful statements about some assumed 'real universe', or some 'deep reality' underlying 'this universe,' or some 'true reality', etc. apart from ourselves and our nervous systems and other instruments.
Any statements we do make about such a 'deep' reality separate from us can never become subject to proof, or to disproof, and that makes them 'meaningless' (or 'noise').
(2) Any meaningful scientific or existential or phenomenological statement reports on how our nervous systems or other instruments have recorded some event or events in space-time." (Page 180)"Non-Aristotelian logic deals with existential/operational probabilities. Aristotelian logic deals with certainties, and in the lack of certainties throughout most of life, Aristotelian logic subliminally programs us to invent fictitious certainties." (Page 182)
Unfortunately, if you accept and possibly even believe these statements, they make most conversation with most people entirely meaningless haha
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