M&D: Cowart article/ch.35

[jporter]

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>Now, does Pynchon agree with Wicks who agrees with Aristotle?
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>Terrance


Reality might be Gwenhiding, as Ari himself suggested, somewhere in between...

Here's some Aristotle through the lens of Heisenberg:


"This concept of the probability wave was something entirely new in
theoretical physics since Newton. Probability in mathematics or in
statistical mechanics means a statement about our degree of knowledge of
the actual situation. In throwing dice we do not know the fine details of
the motion of our hands which determine the fall of the dice and therefore
we say that the probability for throwing a special number is just one in
six. The probability wave of Bohr, Kramers, Slater, however, meant more
than that; it meant a tendency for something. It was a quantitative version
of the old concept of 'potentia' in Aristotelian philosophy. It introduced
something standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the
actual event, a~~ strange kind of physical reality just in the middle
between possibility and reality."

Caught between a shadow and its doubt, once again. What 's a po' boy ta do?

Get real, like Venus on the Sun...

jody