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TheBlackHat
reply to post by chr0naut
The double slit experiment. Leaves a physical trace of the observer effect in a scaled up setting.
chr0naut
TheBlackHat
reply to post by chr0naut
The double slit experiment. Leaves a physical trace of the observer effect in a scaled up setting.
The double slit experiment merely identifies that the nature of light does not simply conform to either a 'particle' interpretation, or a 'wave' interpretation but is something else which has a little of each.
The extension that our consciousness can dictate the mode of the operation of our observation (wave or particle) is a misunderstanding of the dual nature of light and Pauli exclusion.
Even where a definite preference for either wave or particle is claimed due to our observational method (and this is due to the true observer effect) that fact that some believe that it is our conscious decision which directs reality, and not reality which directs our conscious decision, indicates the weakness of this line of thought.
Our consciousness is a particularly highly organized and infinitesimally small subset of all reality and it makes far more sense that it is controlled by the vast external set more than it controls all reality.
To believe otherwise is 'magical thinking'.
TheBlackHat
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Abracadabra. You sound like a scientist...sound like. You forget the double slit experiment, was the result of the experimenter discovering that by walking in and out of the room the results changed. From a particle to a wave pattern. Leaving a pattern of two slit impressions or three slit impressions depending on weather or not he was in the room.