Hello Legion, In QM, and according to the Copenhagen Interpretation , matter and energy exist in the instant of observation. Without observation, there is no way to prove either exists outside of this instant of observation. Even our scientific instruments, which record data without our observation, only yield that data in the instant of observation. There is no way to prove that data actually existed until it was observed. The conclusion therefore is that physical reality and all sentient experience does not exist until the instant of observation. I am using the term instant to get away from any assumptions about time. That's where entanglement comes in. It has been repeatedly demonstrated, with more and more sophisticated means of testing, that in the Quantum level of reality, there are no actual separations of distance and time, and in fact time itself does not exist here. This is because whatever occurs at the Quantum level, occurs instantaneously. This means that what happens, happens with no perceivable delay or process; it is timeless. You could take two electrons and separate them by the width of the Universe, yet what you do to one is instantaneously experienced by the other.Could you expand on this? Thanks
If the Quantum realm is the foundation of our physical realm, there are some incredible illusions taking place for physical reality to appear physical in the first place. For example, when we make an observation through one or more of our physical senses, there is a process involved, and for the stimuli to get recognized in our brains, time is involved for the message to go from our senses through our nervous system to the recognition centers corresponding to that stimuli. Additional time is involved converting that message into information we recognize and are able to give definition to. It involves a lot of time, even if only fractions of a second. Yet, matter and energy, or experience, only exits in the instant of observation. The time it takes us to process and recognize an experience however is an eternity to the instantaneous nature of the foundation of our existence, the Quantum Reality.
I am suggesting therefore that the reality we think we know so well to which our sole connection resides in five physical senses, may in fact be an illusion.
Consider the very basis of our sentient ability. While it often is about physical sensory input, it involves even more non sensory activity. There is a constant flow of thoughts we all experience, awake and asleep, that have no connection to sensory input. Much of these thoughts are not unlike the probabilities Quantum Mechanics implies exist from which our observations "condense" a specific experience in that instant of observation. This experience is no less real than our physically focused experience, and may in fact be more real because it is free of physical limitations and "rules". Certain kinds of dreams demonstrate this. Who has never had a dream in which they were not sure of dreaming or actually having a physical experience, especially during that transition from being asleep to being awake? There are times we all can't tell what is actually happening from what is just being imagined. As soon as we are fully focused on our five senses, it becomes obvious such experience was imagined. I don't think this is accurate however because that focus confines us to too many limitations; limitations that do not exist non physically focused experience.
Now, back to the observation principle. In order for physical reality to appear physically real requires an observation in each present instant.
We think we are made of this physical experience we observe. How can we observe a thing as physically real without being physically real at the same time? In other words, when we observe things, it is outside our physical identity, That would be impossible since in order for us to be able to observe we would have to already be observing ourselves as physical identity in order to make an observation. Since the observation principle is a reality of the Quantum realm, it requires an observer to observe us into physical existence. There is nothing unique about our physical being to make us an exception to any of the rules of Quantum reality or any other known facts of existence. If we are experiencing a master minded illusion, the only aspect of this illusion that can possibly exist apart from it is conscious awareness.
We think it is dependent on physical form and evolutionary biology, but
but our very process of sensory experience, the observation principle, and entanglement suggest otherwise; consciousness or self awareness, or sentient being, however you wish to define it, is independent of any physical dependency, illusionary or otherwise.
Hope this answers your request for an expanded explanation. For sure it is expanded! ))
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Could you expand on this? Thanks