(2018-09-28) Hunt Schrodingers Senate Hearing

Ben Hunt: Schrödinger's Senate Hearing. Schrödinger is saying that reality is – in reality – probabilistic. That the actual physical reality is that the cat is both alive AND dead at the same time.

I think, though, that it’s not just quantum reality where Schrodinger’s Cat exists. What we’re seeing with the Ford/Bret Kavanaugh hearing yesterday is a social reality where Schrödinger’s Cat also lives

If you observed the hearings, you opened the box.

After the Kavanaugh hearings, there’s no more social superpositioning. The cat is alive OR the cat is dead. Again, I’m talking states of the world, not credibility or evidence or arguments or whatever. There is a state of the world where Kavanaugh assaulted Ford in 1982, and there is a state of the world where he did not. Pick one. Now. And once you’ve picked, you no longer co-exist in the same political reality as someone who picked differently. You are truly – and I mean this in a very literal sense – in different worlds. Those different worlds are, in the terminology of one of the main strands of quantum physics, decohered, meaning that they have ZERO connection of any sort with each other.

The last time I experienced a national Schrödinger’s Cat moment, where significant portions of the population experienced mutually exclusive and decohered realities? The OJ Simpson trial. That was a black/white thing. This is bigger, or at least more evenly divided. Which makes it worse. (Culture War)