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Subject: Re: another hint of quantum consciousness
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:35:59 -0700
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On 9/14/2024 12:28 PM, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
> Discoveries happen by diddling with the problem, trying out different
> things to see what happens. Once you have a collection of observations,
> some theory will form of how it all fits together. You test the theory
> by doing more experiments. If these experiments keep confirming your
> theory, then, and only then, can you claim to have discovered something.

To be clear, you design experiments that *challenge* your theory,
not experiments that hope to *confirm* it.  "Proof" always remains
elusive; DISproof is what you are looking for.

> Just throwing harebrained ideas around leads nowhere.

Agreed.  That's little more than high-brow bar-room chatter...