"The Case Against Reality"
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Luckily the details of the cult were not overly important to the overall plot, and I never finished writing it anyways so no one will ever know my shame.
That's easy -- make a small tweak to the theological foundations and denounce any adherents to the existing religion as heretics.
If you opened a chocolate bar and your wife would not know, would you have really opened it at all?
Either way, I'm guessing it's Quantum Entanglement.
Perhaps the idea that the probability waveform collapses when the outcome is observed is false... because every bit of everything that is, was, or ever will be, is really just the same uncollapsed waveform of essential STUFF (smallest erg of energy, smallest portion of matter, etc) being observed in ALL of its potential probability states, all at once. A photon existing moments after the Big Bang is also a neuron zipping from one part of Veronica Lake's brain to another as she is portraying Jennifer in "I Married A Witch" in 1942 and is also a proton in one atom in my left buttcheek right now. And it's also every other particle in there, and every other photon in the Big Bang, and every other thought Ms. Lake ever had, and everything else, too, as it operates at all of its different probabilities "simultaneously". (Except, not simultaneously as we know it, because different probabilities would involve it existing at different points in time, too.)
I believe that particular idea originated with John Archibald Wheeler although he expressed it for electrons and positrons. For protons, I expect you'd need to reformulate with up and down quarks and their antiparticles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
ETA: Of course, QFT effectively replaces this notion with electrons, quarks, and so on being the excitations of an electron field, quark field and so on...
I met JAW once at a conference -- I think he thought I was a dick and he was probably correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
ETA: Of course, QFT effectively replaces this notion with electrons, quarks, and so on being the excitations of an electron field, quark field and so on...
I met JAW once at a conference -- I think he thought I was a dick and he was probably correct.
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The nice thing about pantheism is that it can be made consistent with the nonexistence of free will. If one assumes a deterministic universe and then assumes the universe ITSELF is a superset of consciousness with its own moral agency, then SOMETHING out there has free will, and we are a component of that something, and so we, vicariously, have free will.
Then too--there is this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe
Why is there something rather than nothing.
Well...THIS is what nothing looks like.
We call it Alabama.
Zero-energy? Sounds like how I feel after a day of work...
Nature abhors a vacuum. James Dyson abhors the EU.
I wish I could have met him. I loved his book on geon holes--about charge-without-charge.
What about
- Everyone's perceptions of the universe are their own, and yet not their own.
- Everyone sees things different to everyone else so your experience of the world is different to the person next to you and so forth, that you can talk and communicate to others around you is a by product of that and a shared experience.
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