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I was thinking the same thing. If you read the experiment described but replace the word "proton" with "cat" -- I would just assume that the scientists in quest

by MrLeap 5y ago

I was thinking the same thing. If you read the experiment described but replace the word "proton" with "cat" -- I would just assume that the scientists in question were from a society with very coarse senses and measurements, not that all cats are indistinguishable.

mcswell 5y ago
In some versions of object oriented programming, some aspects of objects can be queried from the outside, some cannot--they are invisible states. For protons, they may come with a serial number, but we're not allowed to read it because of the constraints built into God's programming language.
arbitrage 5y ago
It's a mistake to try to make analogies of quantum interactions with everyday objects like cats. It's not as useful as one might hope, and your intuition gets in the way. Protons don't behave like cats.