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Uncertainty

the state of being uncertain.
something that is uncertain or that causes one to feel uncertain.
"have we discussed doing counseling before the wedding?"
"Ian’s trying to say I shouldn’t pay my fiancés bills. Do you agree with that?"
-Uncertainty
by somedaysomehow October 27, 2023
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An adaptation of Heisenberg's insight that observation affects the observed, extended to science and knowledge itself: the act of studying a phenomenon inevitably changes it, and there are fundamental limits to what can be known simultaneously. The Uncertainty Principle of Science and Epistemology suggests that in studying complex systems (societies, minds, ecosystems), the very act of measurement alters the system. Moreover, there are trade-offs: the more precisely you know one aspect, the less precisely you can know another. You cannot simultaneously know the position and momentum of a particle; you cannot simultaneously know the structure and dynamics of a society; you cannot simultaneously know the content and context of a belief. Knowledge has fundamental limits—not due to poor instruments, but due to the nature of reality and the knower's inescapable role in it.
Uncertainty Principle of Science and Epistemology "Study a society, and it changes because it's being studied. Measure a mind, and it's altered by the measurement. Uncertainty Principle for Science says: there are limits to knowing, not because we're bad at it, but because knowing changes things. The more precisely you track a variable, the more others blur. Science isn't broken; it's just uncertain—and uncertainty isn't failure, it's physics."
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 6, 2026
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I was sitting there doing a pub poo, full of crappers uncertainty, just knowing that someone was going to come in on me as I am about to wipe.
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