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5 Feb 2025 Conversations with Tyler Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think
“I won’t say the deepest level. At the quantum level of reality, it seems, as far as we can see with our perception, that in order to go from contingency to reality, you need an observer.”
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- 5 Feb 2025
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…I don’t know what it means — the deepest level of reality. I don’t know that — I won’t say the deepest level. At the quantum level of reality, it seems, as far as we can see with our perception, that in order to go from contingency to reality, you need an observer. You need measurement. How do you get measurement without consciousness? What does measurement even mean absent consciousness? Electrons bump into each other, something. You don’t need consciousness. If you had a measuring stick in there, that would collapse —…
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