Fun with downtime!

Q: Why did the physicist bash the baby's head open?

A: He was looking for his lost kitty.


It goes like this: For whatever opinion you hold, the human mind can easily comprehend an opinion that runs opposite of that viewpoint. If a mind can desire world peace, it can also desire the destruction of the world. Simple. But, say you haven't made up your mind on something, or better yet, you don't know someone else's opinion. It's the Schrodinger's Cat experiment all over again!

Construct a situation where a person's opinion has a 50% chance of being swayed either way, and that you cannot observe their final decision. (The entire "different people has different views" bit makes it hard to find a stimulus that will definitely give a solid X or Y response, but we're talking hypothetically here, dammit.) The question behind this is, do their mental processes enter a state of quantum flux? Do they count as an observer?

Were this to be performed in the real world, the ideal test subjects would be babies, as they have fewer methods of expressing themselves (older humans are inherently versed in body language, making even the act of looking at them a technical act of response observation.) This presents us with the most glorious of theoretical outcomes ever; if you don't know the baby's opinion of the stimuli, and the child will forget about the experiment when it is old enough to communicate, then you (and the baby, the only possible observer) never know the decision it made. The quantum waveform never collapses.



Heeeeeee.