[ExI] big cat?

[spike]

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf
Of Anders Sandberg
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 5:14 AM
To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
Subject: Re: [ExI] big cat?

 

On 2015-12-29 02:39, spike wrote:



  



http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/12/28/big-schr-dingers-cats-created.html
?intcmp=trending

 

They don't offer useful free references; only the 24 December issue of
Nature, but I don't have a subscription to that.  Might get one.


>.The paper is this one
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v528/n7583/full/nature16155.html

Thanks Anders!

 

>.Yes, the distance involved was 54 cm. But we are still talking about
100,000 atoms in an optical trap, not a quantum lion. 
-- 

Anders Sandberg
 
Well ja.  But if I had a 54 cm cat in a box and didn't know if he was dead
until I open it, I would still bring along Mister Remington just to make
sure no quantum uncertainty would leap out of there and disembowel my
philosophical ass.
 
spike
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