bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel) (01/26/89)
In article <9256@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (David Palmer) writes: > >Quantum events can be recorded on devices which need not have been designed >by an intelligent entity. I believe that one such case is tracks in mica, >formed by fission products from the decay of radioactive elements. This is >a clear case of a quantum event recorded by a serendipitous measuring device. > Measurement of the existence of the track presumes the presense or absence of something (particulate matter?). We will always have to measure our measuring devices capabilities with some form of consciousness. What forms of consciousness you choose appears to be determined by the foundation of life itself and your subsequent observations, assessments, and categorizations of these forms. The mobius strip logic of metaphysics. :-) Steve Bickel