Morally Neutral Knowledge (was: Frayn's 'Copenhagen')

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The mere observation changes everything.

Bohr:  It starts with Einstein.  He shows that the measurement -- 
measurement, on which the whole possibility of science depends -- measurement 
is not an impersonal event that occurs with impartial universality.  It's a 
human act, carried out from a specific point of view in time and space, from 
the one particular viewpoint of a possible observer.  Then, here in 
Copenhagen in those three years in the mid-twenties we discover that there is 
no precisely determinable objective universe.  That the universe exists only 
as a series of approximations.  Only within the limits determined by our 
relationship with it.  Only through the understanding lodged inside the human 
head.  
...

Margarethe:  ...If you're doing something you have to concentrate on you 
can't also be thinking about doing it, and if you're thinking about doing it 
then you can't actually be doing it.  Yes?

Copenhagen, Act Two
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