[MD] 'Uncertainty

[Ian Glendinning]

Hi Marsha, I guess that's an impossible question, since an open, but
sceptical mind might not be "indoctrinated", particularly if the
"teachers" were of a wiser philosophical kind ?

I think the "indoctrination" actually happens much more informally
through memes in the wider public consciousness. I think anyone
seriously researching a subject, like yourself who "really wants to
know", would tend not to be brainwashed.

I blogged a review after finishing Lindley's book.
http://www.psybertron.org/?p=2639

Regards
Ian

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:34 AM, MarshaV<valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> And Ian,
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> How about renormalization?  Is that like Quantum meditation, where you kill
> off intellectual patterns starting with the inconvenient ones?
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> Marsha
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> Ian,
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> Here is what has me curious.  I have watched three lecture series (36 hours
> total) on slightly different aspects of Quantum Theory, and read two books
> on the history of the Copenhagen Interpretation, and seem to have retained a
> beginner's mind: Huh?  Now what if I went back to University for six years
> to study Quantum Theory?  After six years of indoctrination what would
> happen to beginner's mind?  When would 'Huh?' begin to transform into the
> indoctrinated reality?
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> Then I also wonder if I were indoctrinated, for six years, into using a
> non-Euclidean geometry explained in pig-Latin, what, when, where, why and
> how long would it take 'Huh?' to transform into the indoctrinated reality?
> Or maybe just subjecting myself to begin a six-year indoctrination would be
> a major step in the conversion?
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> I really want to know?
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> Marsha