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Aihuxp.116 net.math utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!houxi!ihnss!ihuxp!grg Thu Apr 15 13:51:22 1982 newcombe paradox >From grg Thu Apr 15 13:51:18 1982 To: mknews Subject: newcombe paradox

I encountered this paradox in the context of Quantum Mechanics, where the Moral of the story is that the event of chosing the box determines the outcome. This is to illustrate the lack of an observer-observed relationship in quantum mechanics, now replaced by a participator-affected relationship.

This agrees with the note that the prediction CANNOT be made, the original statement was ann improper question.

Greg Guthrie Bell Labs IW 1A444 x7303

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