Thursday, April 15, 2010

Reality Tests

So here's my attempt at making some kind of sense of the article...

The best way I can understand Roebke's query: "Do we create what we observe through the act of our observations?" is that he's questioning the proof of reality. Maybe I'm missing the mark, but it sounds like he's wondering if we only find things because we look for them. In the article he mentions how performing tests on one molecule can effect others around it (or something along those lines) without us realizing it. So we only get the results we do because of the method in which we tried to answer the question. When we observe the world around us, what we call reality, how can we be sure what we're really experiencing? Isn't it possible simply in trying to observe reality we are inadvertently effecting the metaphorical surrounding molecules, warping the data we perceive? As far as I'm considered, it doesn't make sense to start doubting relity. I'm pretty sure I'm sitting on an actual chair typing this on my actual computer.

So, there's a very good chance what I wrote is completely unrelated to Roebke's article, but oh well. At least I tried. I'm not much of a sciene person.

1 comment:

  1. I didn't really understand the article either. I was interested but I simple couldn't concentrate on it. I got the same message out of the article as you did.
    Basically, I think Morpheus sums up Roebke's question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA3WGf9pX0A

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