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[–]OkToBeTakei 13 points14 points ago

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you observed it with your foot

[–]jonahe[S] 1 point2 points ago

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AHA! (O'Reilly moment) Impossible! You see, my foot didn't exist at that point, for I was observing something else!

No but really.. I know that it's a oversimplification to talk about observation in this way. The question is: Does Deepak? The talk about how observing changes/creates reality kind of loses it's appeal when it's clear that it doesn't even have to be human (or animal) 'observation'.

[–]OkToBeTakei 2 points3 points ago

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nope, your foot was being observed by your leg to which it is attached, your brain to which all the nerves are attached, and abstractly via your brain's sense of spatial awareness. ;)

that's the thing about quantum physics; you have to understand that due to gravitons, everything in the universe is always being observed by at least them, at all times. this is the whole reason shröedinger's cat experiment can never be attempted: no box could be constructed that could isolate the cat from gravitons, since they pass through matter and are, in fact, emitted by anything with mass, such as the box itself.

the whole concept of observation is a highly contextual abstract that more describes the mechanism of quantum existence (i.e. superpositions), even though everything in our current perception of space-time exists because it is self-observing.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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No no, you see...

I'll tell you why you are wrong, tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommuncation. You cannot explain that. /O'Reilly moment.

[–]es-335 2 points3 points ago

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Oh please. This image is obviously a pseudo-modernist Neitzschean materialistic satirical attempt to debunk the known comprehensability of our external replication sensitiviators which, unquestionamogically, do indeed create the infinite quantum spectral navigatory processes of our universality.

/chopra-mode

[–]not_rose 0 points1 point ago

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This image is obviously a pseudo-modernist Neitzschean materialistic satirical attempt to debunk the known comprehensability of our external replication sensitiviators which, unquestionamogically, do indeed create the infinite quantum spectral navigatory processes of our universality.

Uh... yeah. Totally.

Brb going to dictionary.com go reread An Eternal Golden Braid while wearing a monocle and top hat.