Why Objective Reality Might Not Exist

In this video, dive into the mystery of the Falling Tree Paradox and the essence of objective reality. We will explore the intersection of philosophy and physics to answer the age-old question, "If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?". Using concepts such as the observer effect, quantum physics, and the double slit experiment, we explore how particles, energy, and atoms behave at the quantum level. From Einstein's theory of relativity to the many-worlds interpretation and the Copenhagen interpretation, we will look at how these ideas challenge materialism, solipsism and anti-realist philosophy. Can everything be just a simulation? What role does consciousness play in shaping the universe and space-time? Join us as we unravel these complex topics and consider the question of whether objective reality exists without our attention?

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[Nnamdi-winu]

All I can comment is that this video needs to be watched over and over, they're lots of questions.

[childofkhem.]

This might be one of my new favorite channels! They way you bring philosophy and physics together is beautiful and accurate!

[johntornay]

My great grandfather spent a lifetime studying and writing about William of Ockham, translating Latin into English for it to be accessible beyond the classically educated intelligencia, just for someone to come up with the many-worlds interpretation.

I feel like a lot of these problems pretty much just go away if we assume that time and space are not fundamental properties of physical reality, but rather merely part of our subjective interpretation of the world through experience, So that any object exists in all of its states at once, despite our limited perspective. And our inability to comprehend such things tells us more about the nature of our minds than it does of some supposed strangeness of the Universe. The Universe is what it is. Our evolutionary history is not bound to most of the physical characteristics of the universe, and our conceptual capacities are most likely a development of heuristics for prediction, in order for us to make quick, efficient choices in our environmental interactions. In the periods of accelerated transitional speciation along our lineage (i.e. when selection pressures are more frequent or abundant), understanding wave-particle duality in quanta would not have been of any benefit to our survival and ability to reproduce. But being able to get out of the way would have been, or to catch a meal which moves around, or to be able to predict basic future states of cyclic phenomena like the seasons. So time and space, though they are illusory, are useful fictions, and we therefore intuit them as basic conditions of experience. Yet, our most rigorously methodical and conceptually complex systems of analysis cannot answer the most basic question about a primary property of arguably the foremost fundamental substance in the universe--light!--even though the most potent systematic process of formal reasoning from which the greatest certainty we are capable of attaining is evidenced, which is to say first-order logic, is exactly a means of resolving just such problems of dichotomous indeterminacy; that is, problems of bivalent opposition.

Lao Tsu, Spinoza, to some degree Kant, to a lesser degree Nietzsche, and many others have touted ideas of the world as something which we are incapable of grasping as it is. Possibly there is nothing to grasp, as it might be the very nature of the world that it is contrary to the things we are able to grasp, i.e. our percepts and the things we derive from them. When you strip away the concepts of the human mind, which it imposes onto the world as a conditional means of understanding its own experience, you will find that there is a lot less separation and distinction in non-subjective reality than you are accustomed to believing.

[TreeLBollingTreeMan]

All the paths of all the choices that we could make already exist. The only thing left to do is to exercise free will in selecting out of all the choices and all the paths. (sorta kinda like a game program, all the moves are in the program. Just waiting for you to move the JOY stick and choose.)

[davidkemery]

In order for the sound to manifest itself there must be a brain perceiving it. You can perceive it later on even long after the sound, eventual sound, has been created by listening to a recording of it. But at the time the tree falls and hits the ground what is created is minute changes in air density in waveform. If there were no creatures in the area no humans no animals not even any insects what I've just mentioned is all there would be. There's no way to test this because if you went there and the tree fell you would hear it because your ears in your brain are present at the time the tree hits the ground. Later on when you're in your room sitting in your chair and you press play on your device you hear the sound. But everything between the tree actually falling when it does and when you later on here the sound functions essentially the same as speaker wire.

[andruss]

"“Because of your little faith, ” he told them. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there, ’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”" (Matthew 17:20)

[XXplosiveUK]

Who cares, dont waste life thinking about it. Regardless of the answer we can do nothing about anything. We live and we die and if there is anything after remains to be seen....or not. Our reality cant be understood because that the reality of it. It is what it is

[XXplosiveUK]

The AI voice is horrible. Makes the video sound pseudoscience like ancient aliens. 🤦

[shonmack]

Welp. If the moon doesn't exist then nothing exists, even u and this video is non-existent.

[Adi_Bossanac]

Such great questions and thinkers. Meanwhile satans took over everything.