• Default_Defect@midwest.social
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    10 months ago

    At the quantum level, yeah, but there is an objective truth to whether or not the cat in a box is dead before looking. Never mind that the cat itself is an observer.

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      10 months ago

      the cat itself is an observer

      That’s the beauty of the principle. How do you know you’re real? How do you know know you exist?

      You know simply because you’re the observer. If you were stuck in a soundproof box and no one on the outside knew you were in there, effectively you don’t exist. They can’t observe you physically. So therefore you don’t exist since you can’t be observed.

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          10 months ago

          And that’s the basis of the Schrodinger experiment. We can’t know something exists without observing it. We don’t know until we can see remnants of existence.