Hi Stephen P. King
Thanks for the heads up. We ask that question every four
years in the USA-- namely should the popular vote or should
the votes from the individual states (the electoral vote) decide
who becomes president ?
In the first Bush election, Gore won the popular vote but Bush
at the last moment narrowly squeezed out the electoral vote and
so won at least officially.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
11/5/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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From: Stephen P. King
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Time: 2012-11-05, 13:51:48
Subject: Re: Emergence of Properties
On 11/5/2012 1:19 PM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
In the end, we must accept a truth, so in the end,
all truth is pragmatic. We must cast our own vote.
Dear Roger,
Are you familiar with Kenneth Arrow's impossibility theorem and the voting
paradox ?
http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2008/02/12/game-theory-tuesdays-someone-is-going-to-be-unhappy-an-illustration-of-the-voting-paradox/
"The executive summary is that whenever there are at least 2 people and at
least 3 options, it? impossible to aggregate individual preferences without
violating some desired conditions, like Pareto efficiency. You either have to
accept that society will not act rationally like an individual would, or you
have to accept that society? preferences will exactly mimic one person?
preferences. In a sense, that makes the individual a dictator."
I suspect that this impossibility might explain why people are so easily
seduced by arguments like Einstein's quip: "The moon still exists if I am not
looking at it!" We always over-value our own individual contribution to the
definiteness of properties that we observe in the physical universe. It also
might have something to do with the problem of Free Will and the absurd
implications of the Quantum Suicide argument.
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Onward!
Stephen
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