Comment Re:Based on the article... (Score 3, Insightful) 127
Ah, yes. Quantum collapse, of course. What they mean is: "I think the double slit experiment changes its behavior because (ooooh) a human is looking at it, not because there's a fucking thing in the way triggering wave-to-particle transition."
THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE LEPTON OF CONSCIOUSNESS, ONE MOLECULAR ORBITAL OF SOUL. AND YET—AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME DIVINE ORDER TO THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME SPECIALNESS TO HUMANS THAT ELEVATES THEM OVER BACTERIA.
I am sick of physicists rediscovering gnosticism because they haven't read a philosophy book other than Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
 
	