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I think you are alluding to Kant.

He opined that we interpret time in the sequence of which perceptions are resolved into tangible entities by the brain.

In the light of this if we relate this to our consciousness it opens up a plethora of possibilities...

In the world of the very small uncertainty applies. the more accurately you try to locate the position of a particle (say through an incident photon) the less likely you are to be correct. However for a large body like the moon even a beam of incident photons would not displace it by even 1 femtomet...

Do you cease to exist if there is nobody on the moon to look at you?

hmm..the portents are ominous,

As the speed of an object approaches the speed of light time slows down for clocks on the moving object, till for all practical purposes time almost stands still (but never does actually because to accelerate a body to light speed will require infinite energy). Applying reverse logic (boundary condi...