0.00..00% of it.Belinda wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2025 5:49 pmFor brief moment the universe was able to look at itself in a mirror.Martin Peter Clarke wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2025 4:00 pm There are no humans, no observers in 99.99..99% of the universe. Of my back yard. Right now!!! So it's not there! Yeah, that's what Jim Al-Khalili means!!!! Yeahh, right. OK. Yeah, the photons indeterminately bouncing off the moon ARE the moon! Right? I mean, hey man. Who need weed?
No Humans = No Absolutely Mind-Independent Moon
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Martin Peter Clarke
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Impenitent
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empiricism is fun
if you can't observe it, it doesn't exist
the socks in your drawer do not exist until they are sensed
but if you believe they exist, they must
faith in socks ... god on your feet?
just a thought...
-Imp
if you can't observe it, it doesn't exist
the socks in your drawer do not exist until they are sensed
but if you believe they exist, they must
faith in socks ... god on your feet?
just a thought...
-Imp
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Martin Peter Clarke
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So if I put my fingers over my eyes I can't be seen?Impenitent wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2025 6:49 pm empiricism is fun
if you can't observe it, it doesn't exist
the socks in your drawer do not exist until they are sensed
but if you believe they exist, they must
faith in socks ... god on your feet?
just a thought...
-Imp
Hang on, believing is seeing?