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Old 09-23-2007, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Dolazy View Post
For example I know that pressing the light switch will always cause the light to turn on. If it doesn't then I am assured that the light bulb needs to be replaced or that there might be an electricity failure in the building.

However, in a subjective reality the working of the lamp would depend on my thoughts and beliefs about it. This does not seem to be the case. And I appreciate that. If electrical and mechanical devices would rely on my beliefs about them to work then my life would be a big and unpredictable mess.
Take that reasoning and trace it back step by step. Okay, never mind, let's just do it at fast forward pace.

In the end all your electricity and mechanical devices etc are subatomic particles blinking in and out of existence. And you know that there's a big school of thought in quantum physics which say that observation is what makes them blink into existence, don't you.

Observation implies consciousness ..... No consciousness --> no observation .... No observation --> no wave or particle ... No wave or particle ---> no universe.

Awww, shucks.
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