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How the Mind Creates Ideas

More and more quantum physicists are speculating about a correlation between how our creative minds process thoughts and the way the universe works. Read More

Shrodinger's Cat

There is one glaring problem with Schrodinger's cat...the cat is is an observer as well.

Precisely why the cat is necessary

Kristen wrote:
There is one glaring problem with Schrodinger's cat...the cat is is an observer as well.

For the experiment to work, a conscious observer is necessary. No cat, no apparatus acting to break the vial, no broken vial, no paradox.

reality

Keep imagination and reality apart until you have better evidence, especially when trying to monkey around with other minds.

Harsh Reality

This is a simple concept, with a gross indignity to a living creature...or is this my imagination?

Lets start meditating

If one starts meditating, he would probably confront alpha, beta, delta and theta level of consciousness ( and consciousness is nothing but a flow of energy- a trackable flow of photon) which is synonymus to quantum physics and creative brainstroming mind. But here the mind tries to select a single subatom of idea from a whole chunk of millions of free flowing idea and enlarges it to the size that is practically operational.

quantum physics

As I understand it the obsevation affects that being observed because of the light being introduced to do the observing. I don't see how there can be a corelation between the observation of a thought and an object given there is no light to react with a thought.

ps I guess the cat isn't an observer due to the absense of light.

pps, quantum physics gets quoted to back up many theories but I get the feeling no one knows a thing about quantum physics.

These particles have no

These particles have no existance until observed.

Is this true?
I have done a little reading and this doesn't seem to be the case. They exist as matter and can behave as waves or particles and the act of observation changes their behaviour.

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Michael Michalko is the author of Creative Thinkering, Thinkertoys, Cracking Creativity, and ThinkPak.

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