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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • An English couple adopted a German baby. By the age of two, he’d yet to talk.

    They took him to specialists, but they could find nothing wrong with the boy.

    By his seventh birthday, his parents had given up hope. But that morning while he ate breakfast, he spoke clearly: “Mother, Father, my strudel is a bit tepid.”

    They were astounded and overjoyed. “You can talk!”

    “Yes of course” said the boy.

    “But why haven’t you said anything before?”

    “Up to now everything has been quite satisfactory.”















  • but this is just purely metaphysical.

    But there really is an interference pattern. Whatever is happening is physical, not metaphysical, and is happening “through” or “because of” both slits at the same time.

    Unless you’re trying to argue that the statistical behavior of electrons is somehow decoupled from the behavior or each individual electron, which would seem to me to be a very odd metaphysical position.