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:biggrin: it is, but not as loud as 12, which is really pushing it!

In a sense the universe doesn't exist "as we see it" though. I mean the atom is essentially empty space and I've heard that the nervous system essentially makes sense of the chaos that's "out there". But I obviously agree that human history is minuscule in relation to the history of the...

Thank you, this is what I'm getting at. Has anyone done an experiment to show that the wavefunction collapses before the person carrying out the experiment reads the result? Like you said, done with the use of a clock.

Yeah well, what do you expect from a non-physicist

The Power of Now was a turning point for me too. It made sense of the Buddhist meditation I'd tried in the past. I found Eckhart gives people a bit too much "to do" though. You might like to look at Adyashanti's "True Meditation" which approaches it from a completely different angle. His...

I've done some meditation in my time and I know that it's possible to be conscious of your thoughts as opposed to feeling you are the thoughts. In other words, observing the trance-like state of conditioned thought processes and seeing them as not self. But I get the feeling there is no dualism...

This may seem a silly question, but in the case of the above, has it been proven that the wavefunction collapsed "before" you observed it's collapse.

Has it been proved that consciousness is a function of the brain? Many forms of life display consciousness of their surroundings and they don't have a brain. Or is it just a by-product of life? There would have to be consciousness of your surroundings before all of what you say. Without...

Quick question. You mentioned that interaction with particles constitutes an observer. But when the photon behaves like a wave when passing through the two slits, isn't it interfering with the particles in the material the slits are made of? And what about the air particles?

It's absolutely fascinating stuff, so I'm going to go away and read up some more and maybe get back to you. I'm not sure about this observer thing and what constitutes an observer. Thanks very much so far :smile:

Thanks. How does another particle observe a photon? Does that mean photons behave as a wave in a vacuum, but a particle in non-vacuum. And how do you know it's a wave when it's not being observed? That sounds impossible.

But there's nothing to suggest your last hypothesis. Yet, doesn't experimental evidence repeatedly show the collapse of the wavefunction when it's consciously observed?

So if consciousness isn't causing it, what is? And has it been proven conclusively that consciousness doesn't collapse the wavefunction?

Thanks. 1. So it hasn't been disproved, it isn't out of the realm of possibility. Isn't the universe a closed system though? All matter coming from the quantum field, and the matter is the same as the field? One field of energy, therefore a closed system? To quote Einstein: We may...

Hi. Firstly, I'm not a physics student but was just wanting some answers to questions from those that are, so I thought I'd try you lot. :smile: 1. Has anyone proved that quantum entanglement doesn't happen at the macro level? 2. Regarding the 2 slit experiment and how consciousness...