May 23, 2024 05:31 PM
https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/quant...nd-piranha
EXCERPTS (John Horgan): If we realize we’re in the cave, isn’t that the same, sort of, as escaping from it? Better yet, if we can never escape the cave, isn’t that the same as saying that there is no cave, because this everyday world is the one and only reality? And doesn’t that imply that we should just chill out and enjoy ourselves, like the business majors said?
Maybe. On good days, I look out the window [...] and I think, Yes, this is reality, there is nothing else. But then I remember the quantum mist at the core of reality, which not even the smartest sages can penetrate, and to which most of us are oblivious. And I remember the piranha, bumping over and over again into the walls of its prison, blind to its own blindness... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS (John Horgan): If we realize we’re in the cave, isn’t that the same, sort of, as escaping from it? Better yet, if we can never escape the cave, isn’t that the same as saying that there is no cave, because this everyday world is the one and only reality? And doesn’t that imply that we should just chill out and enjoy ourselves, like the business majors said?
Maybe. On good days, I look out the window [...] and I think, Yes, this is reality, there is nothing else. But then I remember the quantum mist at the core of reality, which not even the smartest sages can penetrate, and to which most of us are oblivious. And I remember the piranha, bumping over and over again into the walls of its prison, blind to its own blindness... (MORE - missing details)
