Quantum super-pup-sition
Nice
What this shows is that the human definitions of the words “standing”, “sitting” and “lying” are vague rather than strict.
Lack of taking the “the meaning of spoken language words is in fact pretty blurry around the boundaries (even for words ‘everybody agrees on’)” effect into account is the reason why technical implementations “not doing what the users want” is so incredibly common that it has become a running joke in fields like software development.
Indeed, to some extent, it has always been both necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, and to separate them, so as to reduce his problems to manageable proportions; for evidently, if in our practical technical work we tried to deal with the whole of reality all at once, we would be swamped…However, when this mode of thought is applied more broadly…then man ceases to regard the resulting divisions as merely useful or convenient and begins to see and experience himself and his world as actually constituted of separately existent fragments…fragmentation is continually being brought about by the almost universal habit of taking the content of our thought for ‘a description of the world as it is’. Or we could say that, in this habit, our thought is regarded as in direct correspondence with objective reality. Since our thought is pervaded with differences and distinctions, it follows that such a habit leads us to look on these as real divisions, so that the world is then seen and experienced as actually broken up into fragments.
— David Bohm, “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”
The really funny part about this is that observing the dog in this state changes nothing … for the dog.
technically only demonstrates superposition according to one specific interpretation of quantum mechanics
This is how our dog would sleep in the car, rear legs on seat, front on floor and head on console, really liked the AC and being able to see out the front
Mine as well, he also likes to boop my arm while I’m driving, not understanding that I can’t turn around and pet him.
In any case, a very good dog :3
My great dane does this shit all the time. I just thought she was retarded.
Just curious, what kind of furniture is this? It looks like a table with a bench or a picnic table with the seat attached but if it were it wouldn’t make sense since the middle plank is lower than the other two. Also none of the surfaces seem wide enough to function as a table.
Looks like bleachers (dog is facing backwards)
At first I thought bleachers, but now I’m not so sure.
It is definitely bleachers
Is this a quantum joke somehow?
When you thought it was bleachers, were you afraid? Even petrified?
Schrödinger’s cat has nothing on this dog. Time to update the textbooks.
I feel like I saw this image around 2011 or so. If so, this superposition has almost certainly begun to decay…
String theory is dogs all the way down.
Except nothing will cause the function to collapse. With real superpositions, observing the state causes it to have always been only one specific position the entire time.
Yeah, what a lying piece of shit.
