Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!spar!ellis From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Apology to net.philosophy and Rich Rosen Message-ID: <467@spar.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 13:21:26 EDT Article-I.D.: spar.467 Posted: Wed Aug 14 13:21:26 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 20:51:10 EDT References: <1334@pyuxd.UUCP> <2168@pucc-h> <1411@pyuxd.UUCP> <2186@pucc-h> <1440@pyuxd.UUCP> <2195@pucc-h> Reply-To: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 36 Keywords: duh Today, using either real or imaginary free will, I will try to be a sensitive human being who has once again experienced the intrinsic weakness of subjective perceptions. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * F O R M A L A P O L O G Y T O N E T . P H I L O S O P H Y A N D E S P E C I A L L Y R I C H R O S E N * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I, Michael Ellis hereby apologize to net.philosophy and to Rich Rosen for recent unphilosophical, ignorant and arrogant remarks, and hereby retract all unkind assertions concerning Rich Rosen and his contributions to this newsgroup, which have in fact been genuinely valuable, if sometimes obnoxious, but certainly undeserving of the abuse I heaped. The flaws one attributes to others are invariably those possessed by oneself; consequently I am badly stung by my own hostile remarks towards you, Rich. I am sorry. Furthermore, it was pretentious and overly ambitious for someone with my primitive level of understanding of QM to speak with such overbearing certainty about the confusing quantum phenomena I mentioned. After all, I am not a scientist, and many divergent philosophical interpretations have been proposed to describe the `true reality underlying quantum events'. Please flame as appropriate at any of my misconceptions or sloppy terminology, since nobody gains when falsehood stands unchallenged. True philosophy comes from the love of wisdom, not the stupidity of anger. -michael