The HeizenCoyote Contingency Principle

Because Coyote recently took his car to the quantum mechanic.........

What will happen during the convention next week?  How will everything play out?  Coyote's answer is, who knows?  It is all a matter of probabilities and contingencies based on quantum theory and Stephen J. Gould.

Interpretation #1, view the convention through the eyes of the Heizenburg uncertainty principle.  If the convention is like a swarm of bees, then if you pin down the position of one bee, you can't know what is happening to the swarm, and if you measure the velocity of the swarm, then you can't know the position of any one bee.  Got that?  Therefore, you can only say that individual bees are probably located here or there, and you can only say that the swarm is probably moving here or there.  All to say that nobody knows for sure what is happening in the build up to the convention, only that there are probabilities that certain things will or will not happen.  Nothing can be pinned down for sure.  If this makes sense, then Coyote moves you to the head of the class.

Interpretation #2, view the convention through the eyes of the late evolutionist Stephen J. Gould's historical contingency principle.  If the convention is like a large amount of dice, one dice for each individual and one dice for each group, then every time you roll all the dice, you get a different outcome.  Looking back you can see how it all played out, but looking forward before the dice roll, you have no way of knowing what will happen.  Nobody can tell what one dice rolling five instead of six will mean, but it will change the whole picture.  Everything is contingent on everything else.

So what?  People have been asking Coyote what he thinks will happen next week, and Coyote responds that there is just no way to know.  There are probabilities that things will go a certain way, but everything could change because of the actions of one individual or one group.  In other words, the convention hangs suspended in a quantum state of perfect freedom. Coyote likes the sound of that:  very democratic, very uncertain, very contingent, and very much up to us.  It doesn't get any better than that.

CoyoteJ, quantumly entangled with himself, again.