Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:55 am
So, 'reality is entangled with the human conditions'. But 'humans are the co-creators of reality'. And no humans = no quantum reality = no reality at all = no humans.
Which is it: entanglement or co-creation? Or is it both?
With whom or what do humans co-create reality? And how does it happen? We need to know!
Do humans co-create reality and only
then get all entangled with this creation? Or are we already entangled with it before this co-creation occurs? But then, how can we co-create a thing with which we're already entangled? Or is there no 'before', because it's all 'now'?
The mystical atmosphere down this rabbit hole is so turbid that it's hard to see the metaphors coming, or catch and nail them down.
As I had mentioned somewhere you need to differentiate the
TOP-DOWN and
BOTTOM-UP approach as referred to in Hawking's Final Theory and elsewhere.
Hawking: My 'Brief History of Time' was Wrong.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=39961
Hawking's initial Brief History of Time' was based on the
BOTTOM-UP approach which he admitted was wrong and he changed his views to the
TOP-DOWN approach which is more realistic.
Your current approach, re realism [philosophical] is based on the BOTTOM-UP approach which is actually mystical and woo woo.
In your BOTTOM-UP approach, you
assumed as with those of your like, there is something-X down there independent of the human conditions, i.e. whatever is perceived, known and described, to match that something -X at the BOTTOM.
Your something-X as fact is a feature of reality, which is just-is, being-so and that which is the case.
You cannot tell me what exactly that something-X is just-what? and being-what?
On the other hand, I rely on the TOP-DOWN approach.
What is at the TOP in this case are whatever the things that are based on empirical evidences as verified and justified via a credible and reliable human-based FSK.
Whatever the thing is, I will take it as real as far as the evidence can support it as verified and justified within a credible and reliable human-based FSK.
You have this screwed up view that things are limited to what is perceived, known and described, but is totally ignorant that you are entangled with it, then it emerged and is realized before it is perceived, known and described.
- Here is an example, which hopefully you can grasp it.
When a baby is born how it is that it is able to direct its attention to the mother nipple even before it perceived, know and describe it.
It is the same with many other animals which are born so small, e.g. the joey [kangaroo] which climbed to its mother's pouch where is nipple is, without perceiving, knowing or being informed by description of those facts you claimed pre-exists.
In this case, the organisms or humans are pre-entangled with whatever the reality [relative not absolute].
Whatever the subsequent reality to an organism, it is conditioned by a a priori conditions and nurturing factors. In this case, the organism is in a way a co-creator of its reality.
There is no absolute, fixed or standard reality that is awaiting an organism to discover.
Whatever the reality to a living thing it is relative to the specific FSK within or adopted by the organism.
To understand as to what is realized, the most realistic is to adopt the TOP-DOWN approach, i.e. starting from experience, then to empirical evidence, verified and justified via a credible FSK.
It is delusional in your case of adopting an assumed absolute, fixed and standard reality out there awaiting to be discovered, then perceived, known and described.
You are so ignorant that you are the one who is chasing something mystical and woo woo, and when asked to justify it, you cannot prove it at all, other than to say it is just-is, being-so and that is the case.
If you asked me, say the apple on the table exists, I will take it in my hands, feel it, smell it and ask you to do the same and in addition eat it to be more certain.
If you are still skeptical it is exists as real, then we can refer to a scientific lab to test it within the scientific-FSK conditions to confirm it is a real apple comprising apple qualities, molecules and atoms of what a real apple is supposed to make up of, etc.
Where is the mystery and woo in this TOP-DOWN approach?
Your BOTTOM-UP merely assumed there is a real apple based on words that mean what is an apple that is just-is, being-so and that is the case. This word based confirmation is mystical and woo.
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You asked me questions and I have responded.
The above is an explanation of the prior processes of entanglement, emergence and realization of reality [relative] before it is perceived, known and described.
Example, how did human babies and that of other animals react to a reality before they even have perceived, known or communicated with a description of it?
My point is there are prior processes programmed in the DNA of humans and living things that are conditioned upon a 13 billion year history and 200K of human evolution.
You just cannot assumed there is a BOTTOM_UP reality awaiting to be perceived, known and described without taking into consideration all those prior processes and elements.
Re intellectual integrity, you have an onus to counter my points, otherwise you will keep repeating your questions and complain I never respond to them.