Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe(quantamagazine.org)

16 pointsby pseudolus8 mesi fa6 comments

Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cosmic-paradox-reveals-the-awful-consequence-of-an-observer-free-universe-20251119/

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I have come to believe that consciousness is the fundamental state of the universe, and the brain is simply a filtering mechanism to the "real world", lots of papers show that on psychedelics, where the observer is seeing/feeling larger than life, the brain activity in areas actually goes down.

Of course we don't really know how the brain works, and I do wonder if you were on psychedelics for a looong period of time it would become normal, maybe some MKUltra victims can help with that lol.

dgllghr8 mesi fa

I have a pet theory that I like to contemplate which is that consciousness is a field that brings the universe into being sort of like how the Higgs field brings mass into being

anonymouskimmer8 mesi fa

I'm curious if this links up to the uncertainty principle in a non what's the word manner. A manner which isn't elementary, arbitrary, basic, something along those lines but I can't remember the word.

jrrv8 mesi fa

Very interesting. Almost feels like a cosmic implementation of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

infradig8 mesi fa

Sounds like a cosmic egg waiting to hatch.

inphus0rian8 mesi fa

This reminds of Henri Bergson somehow.