Quantum weirdness: How real is reality? Matt!!! (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 21:54 (3238 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Personally, I have no doubt that even in the absence of “us”, the billions of solar systems would continue to come and go. And I have no doubt that they have specific material properties that caused them to come and will cause them to go. The same applies to the whole of the material world. I agree that we are dependent on the material world, but I do not think the material world is dependent on us.-The material world is there for us to use. 
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> dhw: I am not sure how stable our so-called “knowledge” is (see above). The quantum world is currently so incomprehensible that I don't see how anyone can draw any conclusions from it at all about the nature of reality.-We know our layer of reality. It is the quantum layer that is only partially revealed to us, a limit to our knowledge.