in the copenhagen interpretation... until a measurement is performed, [a] variable has literally no value, but the wave function represents a superstition if states, the combination of all outcomes for a measurement of that variable. Only when an interaction occurs that demands a particular value for some quantity -- for example a measurement is performed -- does the observed variable take on a specific value, that which is measured. This rather odd phenomenon is called collapse of the wave function. The act of observing causes the wavefunction to assume a state that was previously only a potentiality. (Hawley and Holcomb) When the language is at work, the chain of signifiers and the chain of signifieds are divided simultaneously and then matched in a certain way, just like the pressure of air that causes patterns of waves to appear on the surface of water. This is called productive articulation and results in value (meaning). (Roland Barthes) When a player uses his hand (substance of expression) to shape a signifier (form of expression he simultaneously puts into motion a value system by which existents (substance of content) are measured against each otherb according to a certain structure of logical operators which, once articulated, produces an event: Rock versus Scissors: Rock wins.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 11:42:26 +0000
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