Isn't that what Bishop Berkeley was saying all along?
Which means that I can manipulate time, space and matter with my mind. Sounds like fun.
Shouldn’t the Physicists be studying the negative impacts of Global Warming on Quantum Physics?
Philosophy:401 If an electron goes through you imagination, is the thought generated now a physical reality?
Sorry; that makes no sense to me. I’m saying this with a straight face: more research needed.
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(but only if anyone sees it)
“According to QM, the world exists only as a cloud of simultaneous, overlapping possibilities”
QM is wrong.
” the everyday world we perceive does not exist until observed”
I get the drift of this but, the language misses the mark.
Mixing Observation with Existence thrusts Mankind to the center of existence. Balderdash! says me.
G-d made the Heaven’s and Earth.
In simple notation, Things “ARE” or “AREN”T”. A=A.
This scientific pronouncement would make us all God.
Sorry, as a man of faith, I believe I am coming know G_d in my life, and you ain’t Him.
All is know is if I hit my hand with a hammer, it “really” hurts like heck.
” the everyday world we perceive does not exist until observed”
I get the drift of this but, the language misses the mark.
Mixing Observation with Existence thrusts Mankind to the center of existence. Balderdash! says me.
G-d made the Heaven’s and Earth.
In simple notation, Things “ARE” or “AREN”T”. A=A.
This scientific pronouncement would make us all G_d.
Sorry, as a man of faith, I believe I am coming know G_d in my life, and you ain’t Him.
If reality does not exist until a consciousness observes the superpositions, then what existed before there was any consciousness to observe anything at all? If no reality existed existed prior to consciousness, then what brought consciousness into being?
Are 6 six billion consciousnesses on earth each viewing the same reality? Or are each viewing their own reality? If each is viewing its own reality, then how do we have common perceptions of things?
What counts as an “observer” or a “measurer”? People only? People and animals? People, animals, insects, and one called creatures? Plants?
Our view is entirely naturalistic: the mind that underlies the world is a transpersonal mind behaving according to natural laws. It comprises but far transcends any individual psyche.
Or, more to the point: Life is but a dream.
Sounds like solipsism to me and it’s tough to argue against a solipsist.
btt
Hugh Everett took his Many Worlds interpretation of QM seriously and smoke, drank and ate his way to an early death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Everett_III
Only in recent years has the technology necessary for answering this question become accessible, enabling a string of experimental results—including startling ones reported in 2007 and 2010, and culminating now with a remarkable test reported in May—that show that key predictions of QM are indeed correct. Taken together, these experiments indicate that the everyday world we perceive does not exist until observed, which in turn suggests—as we shall argue in this essay—a primary role for mind in nature.
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If John Wheeler were alive he would be thrilled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler
Yes yes. Mind is senior to matter. Known for millenia. Finally the entropists begin to get a clue.
But once reality does exist in a certain form,it is independent of consciousness and cannot be changed by consciousness, The law of identity is still true. A is still A. The nature of entities does not change just because it is observed over and over again.
Sorry, I changed the outcome of this article by clicking on it.
Only in recent years has the technology necessary for answering this question become accessible, enabling a string of experimental results—including startling ones reported in 2007 and 2010, and culminating now with a remarkable test reported in May.
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While I believe in free will, that test in May assumes that humans have free will.