¶ Heisenberg: Eliot-Pound Sequence
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"Heisenberg’s indeterminism,
In which the act of measuring
Always alters the measured,
Would seem entropic were it not
For the experimentally realized knowledge
That the successive alterations
Of the observed,
Diminish
As both our tooling and instrumentation
Continually improve;
Ergo intellection’s effect
Upon measurement and the measured
Is a gap closing,
And the pursuit of more truthful comprehension
Is successfully antientropic.
Before Heisenberg, T.S. Eliot said,
‘Examination of history alters history’
And Ezra Pound,
And even earlier poets,
Reported their discoveries
That in one way or another
The act of thinking alters thought itself."
¶ Citations
- HO. LITTLE I KNOW, Oct '66, Pp. 53-54.
