Thread: Reality As You Know It Does Not Exist

Man, LHC is downright creepy.

Anyway, to hear the scientists excitedly talking about creating mini-black holes. Hello? Those are ... infinite? And this place is not. Oh well. I suppose it zeroes out, somehow.

Worse, it seems that those high energies, harmless in 3D, look to be poking holes in the universe next door, if they model space-time as 9 or 10dimensions... which may be more accurate. Doh! Bunch of PhD Homers.

Lessee. As to your questions....

1) Perception. Proof. Solipsism. You're right on. Einstein actually said this, "I like to think that the moon is there when I'm not looking." But he couldn't prove it, and faulted quantum physics as incomplete for not being able to.

2) Consciousness is so mysteriously entangled with the quantum. So, with reality itself. It appears that, altogether, out observations are co-creating the world. Everette's many-worlds interp. of quantum physics doesn't have the micro wave fn. collapse - rather, it has the observation actually split the universal wave field itself. (http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm) But you're right. Consciousness itself, the phenomenal experience, remains a deep mystery. Issues of "level spanning", nesting, and chaos seem to loom large

Some resources on consciousness.

David Chalmers 'wrote the book' on the hard problem of consciousness. I read "The Conscious Mind" years ago. It's still authoritative.
http://consc.net/chalmers/

Have you seen this? An accessible effort to model the "hard problem" of consciousness as quantum biodynamics.
http://www.dhushara.com/book/paps/co...tm#anchor95825

This is a good supplement. Simple but elegant fractal logical model of perception.
http://philpapers.org/rec/BIESIH

Interesting days...

PQ