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Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe(quantamagazine.org)
16 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 6 comments
  • unfitted2545a day ago

    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.

    • dgllghra day ago |parent

      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

  • anonymouskimmera day ago

    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.

  • jrrva day ago

    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?"

  • inphus0riana day ago

    This reminds of Henri Bergson somehow.

  • infradig2 days ago

    Sounds like a cosmic egg waiting to hatch.