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There's no con. It's just your bodies interpretation of outside stimulii. Enjoy it. It lasts forever.I'm not particularly bothered as long as I'm enjoying the world from my perception. If I'm being conned then it's a pleasant con.
As one smber is fond of saying, I am an experiencing machine being bombarded on a daily basis. I love it.There's no con. It's just your bodies interpretation of outside stimulii. Enjoy it. It lasts forever.
Actually, that's wrong. Sorry to burst the bubble. It's a lazy description of what an atom is. It's not your fault. I see/hear Physicists give this description all the time on pop-sci TV shows and in books and it's 100% bullshit. It's laziness.
The electrons inside an atom exist as a probability distribution, basically a cloud. The entire atom is full of energy. The Bohr idea of an atom looks like this..
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But that's wrong, an atom actually looks more like this...
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It actually looks like neither, but the latter is closer to the truth. It's literally impossible to describe or understand Quantum Physics without knowing abstract mathematics. But anyway, no part of an atom is empty.
As for OP's original question...
Right now what do you see? The screen, right? Nope. You're actually looking at the back of your eyeball. The light hitting your eye is both colourless and invisible, like sound (bad analogy but I'll carry on..). The brain collects the various wavelenghts of light, then creates an image based on the electrical impulses recieved. Your brain is what creates the colour you're seeing right now.
So what we see, by definition, is not real.
I learnt this recently on the joe rogan podcast I think? Made me really re-think a lot about what I thought I knew about physics.Actually, that's wrong. Sorry to burst the bubble. It's a lazy description of what an atom is. It's not your fault. I see/hear Physicists give this description all the time on pop-sci TV shows and in books and it's 100% bullshit. It's laziness.
The electrons inside an atom exist as a probability distribution, basically a cloud. The entire atom is full of energy. The Bohr idea of an atom looks like this..
Logon or register to see this image
But that's wrong, an atom actually looks more like this...
Logon or register to see this image
It actually looks like neither, but the latter is closer to the truth. It's literally impossible to describe or understand Quantum Physics without knowing abstract mathematics. But anyway, no part of an atom is empty.
As for OP's original question...
Right now what do you see? The screen, right? Nope. You're actually looking at the back of your eyeball. The light hitting your eye is both colourless and invisible, like sound (bad analogy but I'll carry on..). The brain collects the various wavelenghts of light, then creates an image based on the electrical impulses recieved. Your brain is what creates the colour you're seeing right now.
So what we see, by definition, is not real.
I learnt this recently on the joe rogan podcast I think? Made me really re-think a lot about what I thought I knew about physics.
I'm not particularly bothered as long as I'm enjoying the world from my perception. If I'm being conned then it's a pleasant con.
I thought he might be up your alley, blokes bat shit crazy, and gullible. You could show him a video of anything and he’d take it as fact, unless it’s the actual facts! Quality entertainment!Joe is canny but I much prefer my man Eddie Bravo!
As someone allegedly said, what is "truth"? There are several theories of truth. Correspondence, coherence, semantic and pragmatist to name but four. Then you have problems involving necessary truths, contingent truths, a priori and a posteriori, it's a minefield. I'd recommend starting with Plato, Quine, Russell, Dummett, Putnam and Tarski and for mind dependent truths Kant. Enjoy.
I thought he might be up your alley, blokes bat shit crazy, and gullible. You could show him a video of anything and he’d take it as fact, unless it’s the actual facts! Quality entertainment!
Fine line between open mindedness and living outside of reality.Like I said, he's right up my street! I'd love to go for a pint with him. You say gullible, I say open minded .
If anything, science and especially Quantum mechanics prove that we as the conscience observer shape our reality.
In other words, if there was no one to hear the tree fall in the forest then it doesn't fall.
That's a vast overstatement of the observer effect, and the sentience of the observer doesn't matter - inanimate instruments cause observer effects all the same.
Well the earth is flat
Agreed, but who made the the inanimate instruments? They don't just make themselves, so by de-facto, they are sentient too, imo.
What would the universe look like if there weren't any sentient observers to collapse its wave functions? Would it not be just a cloud of possibilities for the energies involved?
Is that a typo as surely it would still fall?In other words, if there was no one to hear the tree fall in the forest then it doesn't fall.
Is that a typo as surely it would still fall?
It doesn't matter. Other than through chaos theory, the maker of the instrument doesn't affect the phenomenon observed. It's only the person who puts them there. And your argument about sentience is nonsensical: under that line of reasoning, every single inanimate object is sentient (and bizarrely, animate objects are implied to be non-sentient).
The universe would be almost exactly the same without sentient observers, because the size of the sentient observers is so minuscule relative to the universe that they do not affect it on any meaningful level. There would be no cognitive output collating the values of the energies into a sensible form for a human, but that's just one expression of the interpretation of the energies anyway - it has no fundamental bearing on what the energies themselves are.
Struggling to get my head around it.Not in the world of quantum mechanics mate. In it, the observer shapes reality. That's why its so hard to marry the crazy world of the sub-atomic with the rules of the macro universe. Both seem to make sense in their own way but once you combine them, all hell breaks loose.
Struggling to get my head around it.