Never Mind Schrödinger’s Cat, Here’s David Bohm’s Dream I’ve had dreams of all sorts from time to time, but I don’t remember them too well. There was one dream that had a sort of philosophical content. I dreamt I was in a place that had a cat. I came into the room where this cat was talking to another cat, making a date to meet at a certain time. I said, “There’s something wrong here. What could it be? I know what it is: Cats can’t tell time!”I went up to this cat and said, “What do you mean by making this date? You know you can’t tell time. ”The cat said, “Of course we cats can tell time.”I said, “I don’t believe it. There’s a clock on the wall. Tell me the time.” The clock showed a quarter after eight.But the cat hemmed and hawed and said,
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Never Mind Schrödinger’s Cat, Here’s David Bohm’s Dream
I’ve had dreams of all sorts from time to time, but I don’t remember them too well. There was one dream that had a sort of philosophical content.
I dreamt I was in a place that had a cat. I came into the room where this cat was talking to another cat, making a date to meet at a certain time. I said, “There’s something wrong here. What could it be? I know what it is: Cats can’t tell time!”
I went up to this cat and said, “What do you mean by making this date? You know you can’t tell time. ”
The cat said, “Of course we cats can tell time.”
I said, “I don’t believe it. There’s a clock on the wall. Tell me the time.” The clock showed a quarter after eight.
But the cat hemmed and hawed and said, “Five after four… ten after three…”
So I said, “That proves that cats can’t tell time!”
Then I woke up laughing because the point was that in the dream, I was concerned with some trivial difficulty when a much more fundamental issue was askew. The trivial difficulty was that cats can’t tell time. The fundamental absurdity was the cat talking!