Is Reality Predicated on Perception?(New theory proposes that nothing exists unless we observe it)

Pajamas Media ^ | 7/9/2009 | Mike LaSalle

[bigbob]

OK, whoever is thinking about a black President who wrecks the US economy and turns our country into Sweden - STOP IT right now!

[SkyDancer]

So if we’re asleep and someone comes in and robs the place and we wake up in the morning and nothing is missing? If we didn’t see it, it didn’t happen? My dad complains that someone during the night keeps moving his wallet and keys around and he can’t find them in the morning ....

[tet68]

Baaah, any Buddhist could have told you this.
Drop some acid and see how your reality changes.

[ASOC]

Somebody needs to tell this story to Schrödinger’s Cat - it might be a matter of life and death.

[newheart]

(New theory proposes that nothing exists unless we observe it)

New? Now that's funny. The idea has been around since the ancient Greek philosophers and probably before that. It's intriguing, but does not hold up to scrutiny. In my opinion it is an attempt to reduce all of reality to pure subjectivity. Translation: I am God.

Good luck with that.

[stockpirate]

“A is A and cannot be non-A”

[aft_lizard]

So essentially we have Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle taken to the nth degree. Cool.

[count-your-change]

“Now, in a new book......”

Kinda says it all, someone with a book to peddle so he has to come with something to garner attention.

My new book will say it's a whole new world every morning but I haven’t worked out what to do about the night shift workers.

[editor-surveyor]

For the simplest disproof of this theory, just ask anyone that has ignored a court summons!

[devere]

There’s nothing new about this “new” theory.

It goes back at least to George Berkeley (1685-1753).

http://www.iep.utm.edu/b/berkeley.htm

It seems that quantum physics is quite compatible with Bishop Berkeley’s philosophy.

[donna]

Visualize Whirled Peas

[vbmoneyspender]

President Jimmy Carter wrote the forward to his book One World: The Health & Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century.

I'm convinced because when Jimmy Carter writes the forward to one of your books, what you are saying must be true.

[Ozone34]

It seems that quantum physics is quite compatible with Bishop Berkeley’s philosophy.

"Esse est Percipi." But what if Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, et al got it all wrong!"

Wolfgang Smith: FROM SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT TO THOMISTIC ONTOLOGY

[IM2MAD]

If a man speaks in the woods and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

[humblegunner]

Pantheistic multi-person Solipsism!

I've read my Heinlein, I has!

[TigersEye]

Yep. Scientists are great at coming up with things that are 2,500 years new. lol

[tophat9000]

Not buying it bump

[Richard Kimball]

Oh, if only that worked. There'd be a lot of changes in Congress and the WH.

[UCANSEE2]

In an episode called “Shore Leave,” first broadcast in 1966, Kirk and Spock visited a planet where any thought — even an idyll one — would cause its physical creation.

It was done way before that. The movie was called FORBIDDEN PLANET.