@SeekingPlumb

"...no such thing as objective reality." πŸ€”

article image placeholderA quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality
Uhoh, about a month ago, I put out a swill called Facts or Anything but Concrete, and we sort of went round and round with that topic. Today, I stumbled across an article from the MIT Technology Review

So facts really ARE anything but concrete. https://s.swell.life/SSIeCiVSxoujMd2

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@SeekingPlumb

Facts convo: https://app.swell.life/swellcast/UFLq

For ease, I'm including a link here to the original discussion about facts or anything but concrete
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreoΒ Β·Β 4:20

Very cool article! πŸ˜†

So this is a fascinating find in that. Maybe we shouldn't be as confident in these facts because these facts have been shown to change over time and the ability for the human to perceive reality or realities, according to this study is a beautiful yet limited thing. So great find with this and hopefully it can give us more information to maybe get a bit better with factual data. Or we can just throw it all out the window altogether. Let's just forget this science thing
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@SeekingPlumb

When will it become commonly understood? @Wuandurful

I loved your answer. Duan. Yeah. You know, I think there are still times that we cling to this idea that there are objective facts or objective reality. And if we just go back in time a little bit before the twice election, maybe fake facts won't exist. And we will have some semblance of normalcy, whatever that means. But in all reality, whatever does end up happening, nothing's going to really change, really? Because how many times have studies been debunked?
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@Hans
Hans 😊nome
@HansΒ Β·Β 1:03

what we often consider objective is after all ... relative. #einstein

And so the great thing about that is that with science, it's only a matter of time before we get a better tool and thereby learn something new that sort of clarifies or makes parsimonious to previous theory. I don't know. I think the thing that matters, I think the thing that matters most for me is probably the emotional reality between two people, the comment, the connection that two people share sort of defies everything else. And maybe that's just a tip I'm on right now
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@Hans
Hans 😊nome
@HansΒ Β·Β 0:51

hmm...@MerelyHuman

Great comment. Merely human. We do tend to make our perspective or our perception. God, don't we? It's like a racket. It's like in a conversation or an argument or a debate we believe or we promote that our you is closer to the ideal or objective reality in one way of looking at it, that objective reality or definitive reality may be just simply out of our reach
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@Raretodd
Todd Wiese
@RaretoddΒ Β·Β 2:19

Existence exists.

Hello. I, for one, think that there is objective reality. It's just that our means of perceiving it are not not evolved enough to know exactly what that reality is like. Just for an example, how our perceptions aren't really what we think they are. There is a bundle of nerves in the back of your eye that causes the rods and cones not to be able to absorb the photons that come into your eyeball. So that's a blind spot
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@SeekingPlumb

Perfect examples. @Hans @MerelyHuman @Raretodd

He believed there was an alternate plane, so to speak, where there were perfect versions of everything we see here. And that when we are learning, we're actually recollecting remembering those perfect versions. I'm still not exactly sure what I think about this theory, but it sort of for me, ties into that idea of there being the definitive reality, the perceived reality, and our collective understanding of it
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