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Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
July 12, 2015 at 11:26 pm
Just like what the title of the thread says. This is pretty much true when dealing with quantum physics nothing exists yet exists
because we experience it. It's quite the mind fuck we exist yet we don't exist this is really puts into question what is consciousness anyways
does that too exist and not exist.
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RE: Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
July 12, 2015 at 11:31 pm
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Look up Feynman's 'sum over histories' and you'll find that not only does reality exist without our observation, ALL versions of reality exist without our observation. We just pick the one we observe so that's the one we see.
Where is Alex K when you need a better explanation.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
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RE: Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
July 12, 2015 at 11:32 pm
Seems confusing, like Buddhism: it is and it is not.
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RE: Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
July 12, 2015 at 11:39 pm
Don't know about you guys, but I'm a simulation of a brain in a virtual vat. On another planet.
You are all NPC's in my customised VR. Do you think that is real Oxygen you are breathing! 
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RE: Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
July 12, 2015 at 11:42 pm
(July 12, 2015 at 11:39 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Don't know about you guys, but I'm a simulation of a brain in a virtual vat. On another planet.
You are all NPC's in my customised VR. Do you think that is real Oxygen you are breathing!
Feels like it.
Was I in here this afternoon and did I take a colored pill?
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?
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RE: Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
July 13, 2015 at 12:10 am
(July 12, 2015 at 11:31 pm)JuliaL Wrote: ...
Where is Alex K when you need a better explanation.
He is changing diapers and drinking substandard Scotch. Poor bastard! I miss him, too. If he were not so far away, I would suggest he come over for a drink, when his wife can spare him in taking care of their newborn. Or she could come over for a drink, whatever. I would be curious to hear from her as well.
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RE: Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
July 13, 2015 at 12:15 am
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(July 12, 2015 at 11:42 pm)JuliaL Wrote: (July 12, 2015 at 11:39 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Don't know about you guys, but I'm a simulation of a brain in a virtual vat. On another planet.
You are all NPC's in my customised VR. Do you think that is real Oxygen you are breathing!
Feels like it.
Was I in here this afternoon and did I take a colored pill?
Urgent IT support ticket! VR Admins, need help.
The NPC's are asking me tricky questions!
Can you guys please put this sim on "easy" setting? Ta.
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RE: Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
July 13, 2015 at 12:17 am
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(July 13, 2015 at 12:10 am)Pyrrho Wrote: He is changing diapers and drinking substandard Scotch.
That is just foul.
I hope it doesn't take more than say.... 20 years.
Something I've learned from parenting: You're never off the hook, even when they're grown.
(July 13, 2015 at 12:15 am)ignoramus Wrote: The NPC's are asking me tricky questions!
You know that's where true AI is going to arise; from really good NPCs.
And the next step is when they build themselves weaponry....out here in the real(sic) world.
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RE: Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
July 13, 2015 at 12:18 am
Isn't this a bit solipsistic? The universe exist out of our experiences. That's like saying color doesn't exist because I can't see.
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RE: Reality doesn't exist until we observe it.
July 13, 2015 at 12:21 am
(July 12, 2015 at 11:39 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Don't know about you guys, but I'm a simulation of a brain in a virtual vat. On another planet.
You are all NPC's in my customised VR. Do you think that is real Oxygen you are breathing!
Well, at least you exist, unlike me. I am just a figment of your fevered imagination. You really should see your doctor about this problem you are having with hallucinations.
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