RE: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to dialectics?

Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:39:07 -0800 

 

 

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Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 11:40 AM
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Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to 
dialectics?

 

On 1/6/2015 11:41 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:

So, even what we think of as "nothing" is an existent entity or "something". 

 

If only through the "we" which think about that nothing. 

 

Is anything possible at all without an observer?


What we think is nomologically possible is relative to some theory of the 
world.  All the scientific theories of the world I know of include the 
possibility of the world existing prior to any observers.

 

But do any of them describe how these worlds exist without any observer 
present. It is one thing to include a possibility – e.g. not exclude something; 
quite another to show how.

The concept of the “observer” is also pretty loosely understood  and can mean 
many things…. Quantum measurement is kind of along the lines of what I was 
intending… not necessarily a self-aware conscious observer. 

Isn’t there some debate on the importance of the observer in Quantum Physics 
with some arguing that the observer and the particular system being observed 
somehow become mysteriously linked so that the results of any observation seem 
to be determined in part by actual choices made by the observer. 

-Chris


Brent

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