cumulus.james said:
I just exist. But there is no content to that existence. I am much like Schrodingers unfortunate cat, in a state of quantum superposition. Depression gets the better of me. But there is no me. I am a ghost. A revolting spectre haunting the earth, for the most part invisible, unseen.
Ah, but the reality of the cat is that the cat is either alive or dead, never truly both.
You have yet to realize that you are alive, else you'd not be here to speak of it.
A ghost? I'd say not. You still want and desire, or you'd not have created this topic and said these things.
Ghosts do not want, they do not desire, they just are: forever. They are a remnant of what once was, but you are not that. You are the embodiment of what always has been.
Many people often misunderstand this paradox. Schrodinger was not explaining that superposition exists in reality - not at all! He used the 'cat' as an example to laugh and to mock at the absolute absurdity of the concept of such superposition actually existing in a physical reality. He completely denied such a thing could possibly ever exist!
He was mocking you (no offense).
He mocks you because you're wallowing in the death that has not yet occurred.
So get out of the box. Before the poison kills you.
cumulus.james said:
Einstein said to Bohr if nobody looks at the moon is the moon still there? The implication being that matter does not come into being until it is observed. It is worse than that for a human. The self does not exist unless it is loved. I never will be loved. I never will exist.
Yet, perhaps more than anyone else in the world, both Einstein and Bohr knew that humanity's subjective perspective had no true bearing on reality at all.
That the moon was always truly the moon because it had unseen and unexpected effects on everything else in the universe.
The question you reference I'm sure only related to their arguments about the validity of quantum mechanics. Wherein Einstein argued that reality was not breaking down at the quantum level, that there was an ever-pervading universal force that was currently unknown that explained the link between relativity and quantum phenomena. In this circumstance it would seem Einstein was jesting at the concept that reality was in the current state only because it was perceived, therefore arguing that the moon would not exist if no one ever saw it, due to quantum mechanics implying there is no true state to things unless they are 'realized'.
Einstein might have said this to appeal to Bohr's rationale, because like I said they both knew that things existed despite subjectivity. They both knew there was an underlying reality to the universe. They simply disagreed on how that reality came together.
Now, no matter your beliefs regarding this subject, you are being perceived now and we can observably identify you are real. You do not need to have someone else in your life at this moment, or in the past, for us to know you are alive, and for you to know you are alive.
The moon does not need to be praised or worshiped or glorified as a God or Goddess to glow brightly. It glows brightly because that is what it is, and that is what it will do. It knows itself even when no one is watching.
