Measurement and Ethos
Give the Schrodinger's cat paradox, think of the mixed state as the trag- edy of the commons which ultimately reproduces itself through capital accumulation. What should be taken as the constituents of the wave equa- tion tending towards the sudden collapse with a particular eigenvalue. Wave towards state, spread over E3 space towards specificity of value. Set judgment equivalent to measurement. The field of behavior, environmental, particle, cultural, human, tends towards those moments of relative inter- ference. Measurement is performance judgment; the human sutures, closes in upon itself, defends itself. The wave equation collapses, the commons is bought out. Environmental factors of scale surely play a role; a murderer is punished as a result of the collapse of a nearly=decomposable hierar- chy, a moment in time when the bullet flies, the knife slips, burned into the genidentical four-space of an organism. Measurement is presumed, stated, neutral; judgment is presumed measurement, according to the law, i.e. according to the justice of an N-dimensional manifold and its fields. What mixes in the real cat, mixes in the law; what mixes in physical description is accompanied by a disclaimer, i.e. 'not a real cat,' which is part of the description. Nature abhors a vacuum but abhors as well the many-worlds approach of continuous splitting; it's messy, as is absolute and total relativism. Just as physics possesses no intrinsic ethos, ethos possesses no physics. Morality is situation- and ethos-dependent, event and law. Experiment is theory- and measurement-dependent, event and world. World and law, Law, are orthogonal, disconnected; to measure is not to adjudicate, but measure is to adjudicate. The stakes and foundation-spaces are orthogonal. Given culture, every judgment is orthogonal to itself, self-orthogonal, totalizing and split. Physics and ethos are entangled at the level of the cat; it is the cat that is at stake, dragging quantum and cultural theories with it. Both approaches reside within language; law pretends towards the exactitude of physics, with insipid results. Both tend as well towards mechanism: beam-splitters versus the panopticon, collapse of wave-functions (coupled) with incarcerations. Neither cat nor prisoner escape. In a hyperreal sense we are both; therein lies the paradox.
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