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There are no interpretations of quantum physics that require consciousness for observation, so maybe you should look a little closer at what it actually does say? You can pick and choose the science you want to subscribe to of course, but it’s been making verifiable predictions for a hundred years now. If you ignore it because it disagrees with your preconceptions… well, that’s called religion. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
to say that reality is subjective or something, as if a blood clot in my leg that I’m just not aware of can’t REALLY kill me.
It’s not that reality is subjective it’s that acting as if it is subjective isn’t useful for our everyday experience. So we act as if it is objective. But acting as if reality is objective so you can live your life does not mean reality is objective, and personally, I think being absolutely certain that it is objective leads to shit like “Jesus loves you and died for your sins” - not to great science.
There is a uniform and self-consistent reality
The great value of science is to give us greater access to that reality
I’m really not trying to be shitty or anything about this, but science is increasingly showing us something considerably more complicated than that. Science absolutely gives us greater understanding of classical reality which is useful to us because airplanes fly. However, like it or not, science also is telling us that reality is a strange miasma of superpositions and that we actively participate in the creation of reality by simply existing/observing. At the very least, your outlook that it “is… uniform and self-consistent” does not appear to represent what is truly happening, it just represents what you think is happening, which is, ultimately, the point of the OPs meme. Everything you think you know is being filtered through your experience of it and whether is represents some objective reality or not, it represents it enough for you to live your life and feel like it is objective and consistent. But that isn’t necessarily so. As wild as it sounds, there may be an infinite number of branching realities and you are walking down only one, and considering it as “objective reality.”
For anyone interested in this stuff, there’s a great video from Sean Carrol about quantum physics that outlines the uncomfortable unanswered questions in quantum physics and their implications about reality here.
Edit to add: on somewhat of a tangent, there’s a fascinating book regarding your brain and reality I really love called Free Will
I am of course not the OP but I would assume they believe that statelessness would somehow equate to classlessness?
Supervisor194@lemmy.worldto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Keurig Dr Pepper completes acquisition of JDE Peet’s. That means a lot of coffee and tea brands gone to USA handsEnglish
1·4 months agoNo Bustelo or Bones? Word, I’m good.
I’ve been through pretty much every stage shown here and now I’m firmly in the “I don’t know” camp. It feels like I’ll be here until I’m dead, tbh. Not that it matters (maybe).
lost me at ky jelly tbh
Ranch has more salt than anything and more MSG than garlic, look at the ingredients on a pouch. Ingredients are listed by order of volume. It has more corn starch than onion. It has basically traces of anything else. I know this because I spent not a small amount of time replicating Ranch dressing.
Although there are a hundred MSG-conspiracy-nut websites that will tell you you don’t need MSG to make Ranch dressing, there is no Ranch dressing recipe that tastes anything at all like Ranch without MSG. Full stop.
“Ranch” flavor comes basically 100% from salt and MSG. There is a microscopic amount of herbs that make next to no difference. Ask anyone who thinks MSG is bad for you if they have cut out Ranch dressing for some hilarity. (May not apply to non-Americans).
FYI, Google appears to be taking these down as fast as they can put them up, surprise surprise.
Supervisor194@lemmy.worldto
Linux@programming.dev•I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great
0·6 months agoAlso, you can “install” things like Discord into a webapp and when you launch it it looks and behaves just like regular old discord, but never makes you wait through those annoying installation screens.
Supervisor194@lemmy.worldto
news@lemmings.world•MAGA Senator Admits It’s ‘Easy’ to Fleece the Federal GovernmentEnglish
0·7 months agoMisleading headline, his definition of “fleece” is “giving anything at all to a blue state.”
Supervisor194@lemmy.worldto
Global News@lemmy.zip•US | Trump brags about demanding his own government give him taxpayer money over Mar-a-Lago search: ‘I hereby give myself $1B’English
16·7 months agoYou know, as much as it’s possible for me to, I get him. But what the fuck is wrong with these people clapping and cheering for a man seriously suggesting he’s going to just “give himself” a billion dollars from their tax dollars? How do you get from “conservative” to whatever the fuck this is, because it ain’t conservative.
“Chilling moment”
They never stop trying to convince us, do they? This is only chilling if you’re an ultrawealthy sack of shit.
A nice M.L.T. - a mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe…
Supervisor194@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse memes@feddit.uk•Lemmy walked so PieFed could runEnglish
1·8 months agoCool, well let me know if you do, I’ll join up. I’m sure if you do there would be several dozen people who would be thrilled! 😂
Supervisor194@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse memes@feddit.uk•Lemmy walked so PieFed could runEnglish
2·8 months agoWell, for one, the old Reddit interface’s appeal is fairly limited in general. Most people use apps anymore, I feel like in general desktop users are not catered to even in default interfaces. Of people who do use the desktop, more of them are likely to be new(er) Reddit users who probably find the Lemmy/Piefed default UI to be superior to Reddit - but the pool of people who prefer old Reddit is dwindling, which doesn’t usually lead to continuing support of things.
As it stands, few Lemmy instances have it and in any case it feels pretty fragile. It has broken a couple times and I think been fixed, but this has led instances to drop it altogether (dbzer0 used to have it, for example, but the lead said it was too much of a hassle and its devs weren’t responding to his questions).
I’m fairly worried that 1.0 is gonna break it, tbh. It never gets any updates that I have noticed, and its functionality is a bit all over the place.












Ah, a fellow person of culture, I see. It will forever be vi to me. And pico for that matter.