• jol
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    5 hours ago

    This is something that I noticed is hard to understand to most people. My SO got served a video of the double slit experiment and thought it was like magic, until I tried to explain to him that at this scale, “observing” doesn’t just mean looking at it. Observation makes you part of the system and causes the system to change.

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      3 hours ago

      That is part of what bugs me.

      Quantum mechanics isn’t magical or unknowable. It’s just an area of physics where some of our base assumptions/approximations break down. It’s not even that hard to wrap your head around, it just seems most people don’t want to try.

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        2 hours ago

        Magic is just stuff we don’t know but don’t care to know :)

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      4 hours ago

      There is a magic to perception nothing else can replicate. I’m pretty sure awareness is existence, so it’s attention has to change reality.

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        3 hours ago

        Perception and observation are different things. Air molecules can be “observers” when looking at electrons etc.