i guess it was followed wth a further answer, but his punchline didn't really answer the question regarding empathy to other's worldviews. got me thinking for a second though, he's not gonna sway hardcore religious folk anyway. the ones that would be offended. the people that can be swayed by the evidence are the fence-sitters, and so he probably does take a good approach, battle the stupid out of people.
Nothing is real until it has been observed! This clearly needs thinking about. Are we really saying that in the 'real' world - outside of the laboratory - that until a thing has been observed it doesn't exist? This is precisely what the Copenhagen Interpretation is telling us about reality."
meteorites crash through people's rooftops. so, nope...
it's not all that strange as long as you stop looking at things from a hominid perspective, seeing a 3D world, with linear real-time causations etc. fundamentally the universe is maths, just mathematic probabilities, laws and limits at certain values - of a possibly infinite array (this is just one branch of possibilities where things like us could occur). so, when understanding it like this - the smallest detectable limits of this place all just comes down to probabilities, it's all just made of maths. not building blocks, not stuff, but just potentials.
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got me thinking for a second though, he's not gonna sway hardcore religious folk anyway. the ones that would be offended.
the people that can be swayed by the evidence are the fence-sitters, and so he probably does take a good approach, battle the stupid out of people.
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Nothing is real until it has been observed! This clearly needs thinking about. Are we really saying that in the 'real' world - outside of the laboratory - that until a thing has been observed it doesn't exist? This is precisely what the Copenhagen Interpretation is telling us about reality."
meteorites crash through people's rooftops. so, nope...
it's not all that strange as long as you stop looking at things from a hominid perspective, seeing a 3D world, with linear real-time causations etc.
fundamentally the universe is maths, just mathematic probabilities, laws and limits at certain values - of a possibly infinite array (this is just one branch of possibilities where things like us could occur).
so, when understanding it like this - the smallest detectable limits of this place all just comes down to probabilities, it's all just made of maths. not building blocks, not stuff, but just potentials.
Robert Anton Wilson - Language, Reason, and Reality