The problem is that moonshot wants to define a foolproof, always applicable criterium which unfaillingly points out good books (= "by an author") and bad books (= "not by an author").
This is not possible, for two reasons:
1. As I said: someone's vegetables will be someone else's weeds. A book that is deemed to be a great read by some, might be thrown in the trash by others.
2. If such a criterium could exist, one would switch from being an author to not being one, or the other way around, because the criterium implicitly states that authors can only write good books. As soon as an author writes a bad book, he would cease to be an author until he writes a good book again.
So... logically...
A. Each book is good AND bad, depending on whom you ask.
B. Because of this, the writer of said book is both an author AND not an author.
This causes writers to be in
superposition with regard to authorship, and the result of being an author or not depends on the observer/measurer.
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Quantum superposition is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics that holds that a physical system—such as an electron—exists partly in all its particular theoretically possible states (or, configuration of its properties) simultaneously; but when measured or observed, it gives a result corresponding to only one of the possible configurations (as described in interpretation of quantum mechanics).
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There you have it.
A writer is a quantum particle.
This problem was solved by sheer logical reasoning, and the thread can therefore be closed. If you leave it open while the solution is here, it would mean that the thread is solved and not solved at the same time, which would make this a quantum thread. Those threads are dangerous on a forum. They could explode, you know.