We know that "a thing isn't true unless there is someone to observe it is true" (a la Schrodinger and his cat). We also know that expected results produce those desired results (scientific experiments have to build in safeguards against experimenter expectancy effects).
What we may not have considered is that if we take the position of the cat in the box and we believe there is a Being that opens the box, when our box is opened (what we call death), the Being is there. If we believe there is nothing there, when our box opens, that is what we find.
The dance we dance now (or at moment of box opening) keeps on dancing. We will continue to be proven right, products of our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
(Thanks to Mary Doria Russell, Children of God, for the cat-perspective insight.)
What we may not have considered is that if we take the position of the cat in the box and we believe there is a Being that opens the box, when our box is opened (what we call death), the Being is there. If we believe there is nothing there, when our box opens, that is what we find.
The dance we dance now (or at moment of box opening) keeps on dancing. We will continue to be proven right, products of our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
(Thanks to Mary Doria Russell, Children of God, for the cat-perspective insight.)
Uhmm, the thing is that the cat, the box, and the observer opening the box are the same consciousness if we are to believe quantum entanglement and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
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ReplyDeleteAre you sure? Doesn't applying quantum principles to macrophysics commit the Fallacy of Composition?
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