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We don’t directly see anything. Our brains are trapped inside our head. The whole concept of "reality" and solid things is just a useful construct for beings ma
by lbenes 10y ago
We don’t directly see anything. Our brains are trapped inside our head. The whole concept of "reality" and solid things is just a useful construct for beings made of matter. We evolved to see in the visible spectrum because it mostly bounces off of stuff like us(not totally, put your hand up to a bright light).
We are beings of condensed energy. Would we be “real” to beings in the neutrino / dark matter world of physics? Or would we "nothing" in their reality? Even if they studied us, would a rock appear to be any different than a human when viewed from the realm of WIMPs? To hear physicists Dawkins and Krauss think about this and the concept of “nothing”:
https://youtu.be/CXGyesfHzew?t=1229 https://youtu.be/CXGyesfHzew?t=1229
- seanp2k2 10y agoYeah, I've totally had these thoughts before too. The interesting part would be proving any of them :)