Schrödinger hated this cat metaphor, he originally told it to highlight its absurdity.
However, Schrödinger was also a devout pedophile and rapist, so I take glee every time his cat is referenced. Fuck him.
…devout??
I said what I meant.
Moore describes Schrödinger having a ‘Lolita complex’. He quotes from Schrödinger’s diary from the time where he said that “men of strong, genuine intellectuality are immensely attracted only by women who, forming the very beginning of the intellectual series, are as nearly connected to the preferred springs of nature as they”.
yuck. he apparently groomed a 14yo he was tutoring and eventually got her pregnant, and later preyed on a 12yo (per Wikipedia.)
never meet your heroes.
I’m starting to think the pigeon wasn’t so bad
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeshh
Loved my psych professor. When we went over him she made it VERY clear that we were only doing so because he happened to be influential in the founding of modern psychology, but otherwise he was full of shit and a horrible person.
Edit: I’m an absolute dumbass and somehow mixed up Schrödinger and Freud.
Are you perhaps thinking of someone else? As far as I’m aware, Schrödinger is only well known for work in particle physics, quantum mechanics, and related physics fields.
No, I think I am. I have somehow confused Schrödinger for Freud.
Wow. Brains be dumb sometimes.
Freud was definitely influential, and definitely full of shit, so that tracks. Psychoanalysis is completely empirical, written as an unattackable dogma rather than science, and has been proven without any beneficial effect as a treatment on most psychological troubles. But because Freud was so influential, especially in France, almost all French psych universities are teaching his bullshit first and almost exclusively.
Also, the amount of shit he’s written leads to modern day psychoanalysts with absolute horrors of diagnoses like “it’s that kid’s mother’s fault that they have autism, because she loves them wrong”.
Schrödinger was also a devout pedophile and rapist
ohno
The word “devout” in this context threw me so hard.
I’ve seen this exact comment copied/pasted from elsewhere
Including the follow up of someone questioning “devout” and getting that quote in response.
That was probably me. A sign that I’ve saturated the fediverse with my rant and I should cool it.
Still my first time seeing it. And as a physicist who wants to strive to improve my field we should know these things.
I don’t get the punchline
The message could be read as either
Kill him not, wait for me
Or
Kill him, not wait for me
It’s a bit of a stretch to be honest
oh its supposed to be interpreted two ways, I see thank you
Kill him not, wait for me and I’ll kill him.
That cats attorney looks like the sidekick bad dog from all dogs go to heaven
Lmao
I think they forgot the comma in the telegram
i think that is the point of the comic. “schrodinger’s telegram”…
It is, but it’s dumb because the cat analogy doesn’t have to do with ambiguity.
I think the point and the dumbness are in superposition
Commas cost extra, so it was commonplace to leave them out.
Scrhödinger
I know the ‘sch’ can be a difficult phoneme for the Americans, but this variety is special
But if you put him in the gas chamber without any windows or other observation means, is he alive or dead?
I think it’s a classic short story format, it leaves you guessing what happens next.
