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This probably disproves the hypothesis that consciousness shapes reality, because if it did, the millions of brainwashed people watching movies would have turne

• TazeTSchnitzel 5y ago
  Why can't they have subtle impacts?
  • yourenotsmart 5y ago
    Subtle impact is always a given as people affecting their own understanding affects their actions, and their actions shape the reality around them.
• beebeepka 5y ago
  Not sure I understand what you're trying to say here. Do you agree people are influenced by movies or not? I think we all immitate and there's very little, if any, truly original... thoughts/behaviours
  • sethammons 5y ago
    I take their meaning as a poke at those who believe that "if you will it, it will be." There were some who believe(d) if you gathered a stadium of people and told them all to think about the candle in the center of the stadium self-igniting that through the power of shared belief it would. If this were true, then, to op's point, a bunch of reality would be changing to match people's mental expectations as influenced through media tropes. And since we don't see that, then people's thoughts likely don't influence reality.
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