At 3:06 PM 10/19/4, Keith Nagel wrote: >As regards angels flying along with the particles, >you'll have to put that question to Thomas or RC, >they seem to have a direct line to God.
As you must have sensed, the choice of the angels metaphor indeed was not directed to you, but I think it does portray the important notion that regardless of the choice of any set of three deterministic or stochastic boolean functions to compute D, E and F, be the functions finite or not, the final result is merely the weighting of the eight possible outcomes. Such a weighting can not achieve the experimental results. An angel here is really only a metaphor for function or computer program or even arbitraryness. >As regards angels flying along with the particles, >you'll have to put that question to Thomas or RC, >they seem to have a direct line to God. I've been >left to figure this stuff out on my own. It's lonely >at times, but freedom is a Good Thing don't you know (grin). That is my feeling too. Without quantum reality we would have no freedom at all. Our existence would be lockstep determined at every level at every instant. It sees to me reasonable that the only way God could give us a meaningful world, and yet also freedom, is by providing the randomness of the quantum underpinning of reality. Regards, Horace Heffner
