Does consciousness create our reality?

[stiltokin74]

thank you B.Friendly, that was helpful I think. I believe that "all possible realities exist" makes sense.

 

[Chunkybuddha]

... great read. Thank you for an obviously well considered opinion.....But I would ask, how do we reconcile the fact that the outcome of the wave function experiment differed according to whether someone witnessed the experiment or not?

I will be the first to admit I can get over my head very quickly but I do love to chew on these questions.

I see your point after slowly reading the table analogy a few times. Obviously there are events in nature that take place with noone around, such as a "roof caving in" ...yet I keep coming back to that pesky experiment. How can we explain?

You can't. Well you can, but it involves many theories overlapping each other, and dimensions, and all realities. which goes much deeper into the whole quantum part of this problem, and I'm not educated enough on that lol.; very complex at its current state, but science simplifies in explanation over time, Pretty scary huh x.x

So for the sake of your question, you CAN explain because you are using a model-dependent realism. An idea that our 'physical theory' our 'picture' of the world is a model (typically mathematical nature) AND laws explaining the elements of the model (our table and roof) to observations. Even though, at a quantum level, what I said is not complete. Err.. get it? ha.

 

[Weird]

our minds conscience influences our actions which in turn influences the actions of life around us

differentiating wills, minds and actions in an ever increasing world population creates an array of diversity in our percieved realities that would leave people to think that there are no bounds to reality, but its a lack of relativity and context that allows this

 

[stiltokin74]

Most excellent answer ChunkyBuddah, I actually do believe I understand what you are saying. We can explain as long as we stay within our mode, but ... at the quantum level we are only beginning to scratch the surface of understanding, due do the complexity of universal mechanisms involved.