• Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Exactly. Or, you could just buy into “many worlds” and the idea that your brain and all the quantum particles that comprise it just join in on the laser beam’s wave function. (That’s an oversimplification but close enough)

    Just like there’s no reason to believe the earth is at the center of the solar system, there’s no reason to believe that human consciousness is a fundamental part of quantum mechanics.

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      3 months ago

      It’s good to properly place our consciousness in the context of the rest of the universe and its physics. Still, it’s a great use of this meme format