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Is It Possible That We Are All Experiencing Different Realities
As a sort of carry on from tonights R&S thread about Ouija boards?
Some people claim to have had supernatural experiences (glasses moving on their own accord etc) While I have searched for such experiences and have found nothing. (And really have EXPECTED nothing) Do we see what we expect to see?? As in the double slit experiment?
Is consciousness pliable?
Maybe all isn't as it seems?
Some people claim to have had supernatural experiences (glasses moving on their own accord etc) While I have searched for such experiences and have found nothing. (And really have EXPECTED nothing) Do we see what we expect to see?? As in the double slit experiment?
Is consciousness pliable?
Maybe all isn't as it seems?
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The Wigner's Friend Paradox first postulated (unsurprisingly by a guy called Wigner) that no two people observe the same reality. His work (in the field of quantum physics) remained theoretical until earlier this year, when a team at Heriot-Watt University published a paper which appeared to prove Wigner's assertion:
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While their research was primarily a matter for physicists, it also attracted the attention of philosophers, whose varying views are illustrated here:
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While their research was primarily a matter for physicists, it also attracted the attention of philosophers, whose varying views are illustrated here:
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The brain fills on a lot of gaps from limited input data. Almost certainly we experience different realities.
In any case if time is an illusion everything possible is happening at once in different "time cells". Maybe we all just experience what locally turns out most probable for that version of us.
In any case if time is an illusion everything possible is happening at once in different "time cells". Maybe we all just experience what locally turns out most probable for that version of us.
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Nailit - Food for thought. //
Indeed it is.
Deciding that this occur because they are 'measured' and thus there is a 'cosmic conciousness' is utterly facile, and takes less than no time to demolish as an argument.
Measuring things is a man-made concept, but to suggest that because anything is 'measured' it indicates a 'cosmic conciousness' makes absolutely no logical sense whatsoever.
Nailit - Food for thought. //
Indeed it is.
Deciding that this occur because they are 'measured' and thus there is a 'cosmic conciousness' is utterly facile, and takes less than no time to demolish as an argument.
Measuring things is a man-made concept, but to suggest that because anything is 'measured' it indicates a 'cosmic conciousness' makes absolutely no logical sense whatsoever.
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people have a tendency to want to believe all manner of BS. That's why the wonderful world of total bowl0cks exists. The James Randi foundation offered $1m to anyone who could produce any sort of psychic phenomenon, even water divining etc under lab conditions. He never had to give it out.
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he's not judge and jury, they devise a test that is agree by both sides and agree the criteria to pass it. eg The Horizon program did a test of homeopathy and of course confirmed it's total bowlocks. This was a properly sanctioned double blind test used by science. He did a similar thing with a water diviner. Most of these charlatans know they are charlatans making a living off the gullible but some are so deluded that they think they do have special powers.
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