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Our book club meeting in Tulsa devolved into a 45-minute argument over whether a fictional cat could understand quantum physics.
It started when someone said Schrodinger's cat was a metaphor, and my friend Mark (who's a mechanic) got really heated and yelled, 'You can't put a live cat in a box with poison, that's just cruel writing!' so, has your group ever gotten stuck on a totally ridiculous detail?
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reeseb735mo ago
Hold up, your friend Mark missed the whole point. The cat is not real. It's a thought experiment. It's about physics, not animal cruelty. I'm actually stunned a book club could get stuck on that for 45 minutes.
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skylerm554mo ago
You know what, I actually used to think the same way about the cat... but this kinda changed my mind.
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the_dylan5mo ago
Yeah the "stunned a book club could get stuck on that" line is so real. My buddy was in a philosophy class where they spent a whole week arguing if the guy in Plato's cave could actually turn his head. Not the point of the story at all. Some people just get hung up on the wrong detail and it totally derails everything.
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