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What experiment could test your definition of reality? Using your
definition, can you describe an experiment that tests whether or not Mars
is real?
Regards,
Jack
"Trust me. I have a lot of experience at this."
General Custer's unremembered message to his men,
just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, D.V.N. Sarma wrote:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:08 AM, ludwik kowalski <_______________________________________________
kowalskil@mail.montclair.edu> wrote:
Who knows what would be there?
I would say that real is what would exist if all humans disappeared.
Planets, for example, are real.
Ludwik
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Right now we are not sure of the nature of the world around us.
Our knowledge of the world is through the filters of our senses.
Thus we do not know what actually is out there.
QM is reaching the conclusion reality does not exist when
we are not observing it.
Very close to the advaitic school "by looking we create the world".
If you remove observer(s), the question of existence of reality
in their absence, becomes unverifiable and meaningless.
regards,
Sarma.
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