This is not related to the real purpose of all these talks, but I’ve wanted to run this idea by someone for a while:
Quantum Mechanics proves that, in a sense, the reality we know very much is a Plato’s Cave type situation. In other words, everything we experience is part of a shallower ‘shadow reality’ that is causally connected to, but distinct from or just a small part of, the true nature of reality.
If the deep nature of reality is that everything we think of as “a particle” exists in superposition, exists in this ever-evolving world of configuration-states, but the only thing we ever experience is one tiny part of that superposition, one tiny slice of configuration-space, then… we’re living in shadows of a sort.
This is not related to the real purpose of all these talks, but I’ve wanted to run this idea by someone for a while:
Quantum Mechanics proves that, in a sense, the reality we know very much is a Plato’s Cave type situation. In other words, everything we experience is part of a shallower ‘shadow reality’ that is causally connected to, but distinct from or just a small part of, the true nature of reality.
If the deep nature of reality is that everything we think of as “a particle” exists in superposition, exists in this ever-evolving world of configuration-states, but the only thing we ever experience is one tiny part of that superposition, one tiny slice of configuration-space, then… we’re living in shadows of a sort.
Please tell me if that’s stupid.