Re: Conway's Free-Will Theorem (was Geddes's final hurrah)

From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Sat Aug 06 2005 - 11:41:19 MDT


On Aug 6, 2005, at 12:07 PM, Mitchell Porter wrote:
> Randall Randall said
...some uninformed stuff.

> No - the elementary particles being referred to are NOT part of the
> experimenter.
> [...]
> Conway's thought experiment (like a number of philosophically
> interesting quantum experiments) involves an experimenter making
> measurement choices, and then measured systems responding in ways that
> are difficult or impossible to explain using a "local hidden
> variables" theory. He is actually proposing a corollary to the
> Kochen-Specker theorem:
> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kochen-specker/

Whoops. My mistake.

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