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Originally Posted by Lucas  Pehaps you have a book by a renound physicist as well? |
I struggle to understand where this compulsive need to quote books come from. If you insist, I could give you the line of conduct of the (much more famous than Bols) philosopher Descartes: "never accept as true something that you cannot understand and prove as such".
Obviously, we must agree to a definition of reality the same way that we mathematicians agree on a set of axioms. Thing is, we traditionally define something to be true whenever it appears as self-obvious to a large majority of people and fits the model of our physical world. Basically, this is just a word. Nothing says that you feel better or anything else when you adopt this model, but statistically, this is so far, in my opinion, the best for the society to function.
I wouldn't go as far as Radical and talk about a "cult" here, even though I strongly suggested the metaphor; I'm just saying that Steve may seem to experience questionable things, but I always find his words and thoughts very reasonable. This may not be the case of all the distressed people who read his articles.