Pursuit of money, fame, and status generally does not produce a bumper crop of friends and friendly relatives in old age. Indeed, those goals are selfish and selfishness is not a way to make friends. Furthermore, money, fame, and status tend to attract false friends which may get in the way of your acquiring [of] real ones.
— John T. Reed
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2012.02.26 Sunday ACHK
種子論起點 12.2
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有心栽花花不香，無心插柳柳成蔭。當你「需要」一樣東西時，你就會失去它。
（安：什麼意思？）
例如，當你「需要」你的女朋友和你在一起時，你就會失去她。
如果你和女朋友在一起，是因為你「需要」她的話，你就再不是出於自由意志，因為喜歡見到她，而和她在一起。由於害怕失去她，你會在日常的相處中，極端遷就。那樣，這段關係，再也不是一段平等的關係，再不可以坦白對話、真誠交往。這段關係逐漸瓦解。
— Me@2012.02.26
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2012.02.26 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Universal wave function, 13
Everett noticed that the unitary, deterministic dynamics alone decreed that after an observation is made each element of the quantum superposition of the combined subject-object wavefunction contains two “relative states”: a “collapsed” object state and an associated observer who has observed the same collapsed outcome; what the observer sees and the state of the object have become correlated by the act of measurement or observation. The subsequent evolution of each pair of relative subject-object states proceeds with complete indifference as to the presence or absence of the other elements, as if wavefunction collapse has occurred, which has the consequence that later observations are always consistent with the earlier observations. Thus the appearance of the object’s wavefunction’s collapse has emerged from the unitary, deterministic theory itself. (This answered Einstein’s early criticism of quantum theory, that the theory should define what is observed, not for the observables to define the theory). Since the wavefunction appears to have collapsed then, Everett reasoned, there was no need to actually assume that it had collapsed. And so, invoking Occam’s razor, he removed the postulate of wavefunction collapse from the theory.
— Wikipedia on Everett’s relative-state formulation
2012.02.26 Sunday ACHK
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