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To: Cboldt

True, which is why I am hesitant to believe that electrons have some kind of “intelligence”, or hocus-pocus, to detect observation and behave accordingly.


71 posted on 07/25/2010 7:24:49 AM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: James C. Bennett
-- which is why I am hesitant to believe that electrons have some kind of "intelligence", or hocus-pocus, to detect observation and behave accordingly. --

No individual particle (or photon, or unit of other form of electromagnetic radiation) does. The observed patterns are the result of probability, played out over millions of discrete events.

72 posted on 07/25/2010 7:36:07 AM PDT by Cboldt
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