When i was a kid, i was in a traveling bus with my dad and thought about something. And i basically asked him:>dad so what if the seat in front of me doesnt actually exist until i touch it?He laughed and told me some theories were flirting with this sort of stuff.I now realise it'd have to do with quantum mechanics of fields but what is it exactly?
>>16799074The seat has >gravitational pull>properties that you can see visibly>passively modifies EM wavesWhich means seeing it as arguably the same as touching it.I guess you could make an argument for the speed of propagation of the medium or the waves but that argument could keep going forever since we'd be arguing what part of your body is doing the perceiving. Are nerves just a medium since the speed at which info travels through them isnt instantaneous?
>>16799079I mean yeah the medium used surely rephrases what i experienced/just said. I'm not a scientist at all and was very bad at maths so yeah.But i think in the moment, and it seems my dad understood what i meant, i was expressing a question about the relation between actual particles, and consciousness? If that makes sense?
In case the "we live in a simulation" people are right, it's very likely that the simulation has occlusion culling.
>>16799074>until i touch itWhy would you believe your sense of touch more than your sense of vision ?Both can easily be fooled, both are needed to tell your conscious that there could be a real seat in front of you.
>>16799264Sure. But i was a kid back then and and i guess my instincts would go and consider my vision as more passive than the feeling on my fingertips. I really was in a mood where maybe, everything that surrounds us humans, is only "real" because we are all connected to the same field of particles, or more precisely, what someone like Leonard Susskind would call bits. I wasn't thinking exactly like that back then i was fucking 10 or something but one of my hobbies now is to listen to this kind of shit. It was just one of those stupid questions kids often ask.And these very bits would be connected to the field we'd all be connected to?
>>16799331And rereading myself i realise i probably just described quantum fields kind of. But what i'm looking for is more related to applied reality than the simulation theory(ies).So what if these bits only "activate/translate" themselves into reality only when what one could call an "entity" interacts with them?
>>16799074Indians think like this, they see the train barreling towards them but don’t get out of the way cause reality is an illusion or something
>>16799344My first reaction was pic related but when you think about it. It makes absolute sense. They just tryna be smartass proving the theory.
>>16799074His koppel flew off. Is he God's chosen klutz?
