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> "Our bodies are vibrations. Our words are vibrations. Our movements are vibrations. Nature in all its glory is a great cosmic dance of vibrations. But when we

> "Our bodies are vibrations. Our words are vibrations. Our movements are vibrations. Nature in all its glory is a great cosmic dance of vibrations. But when we filter our encounters through digital technology, we sever those vibrations." Err... no, we don't. We do lose the sense of touch and smell looking at audio-visual media, and the resolution is lower than what our eyes and ears are generally capabable of capturing. However, quantum physics tells us that all experience is indirect, that our senses only give us an interpretation of real phenomenon. Certainly it's nice to go for a walk in nature, for a swim in a river, to see a live music performance, etc. But how about working in a coal mine, shoveling pig manure, working in a prison, spraying pesticides in an agricultural field? Those are also 'direct experiences' but not many would enjoy them.

sandworm101 4y ago
>> see a live music performance Every industry can become a grind. Once you have say through a hundred Taylor Swift concerts you might be begging for that coalmine job. I met a piano tuner one who after twenty years of tuning Steinways grands in concert halls had developed a hatred for all classical music.
etrautmann 4y ago
No need to invoke quantum physics woo here to make the same point. One synapse in from the peripheral senses, the information is all just neurons spiking. That’s a compressed, lossy, and time delayed model of the real world before information has even hit the brain.
- photochemsyn 4y ago
  Neurons spiking is a lot of quantum woo, as you put it. Collapse of an electric charge gradient across a membrane, neurotransmitters being released and binding to receptors, etc., all involve various QM processes. I was however thinking more about photon scattering, reflection, and emission from so-called material objects, well before those photons hit the rods and cones in the eye.

sandworm101 4y ago

>> see a live music performance Every industry can become a grind. Once you have say through a hundred Taylor Swift concerts you might be begging for that coalmine job. I met a piano tuner one who after twenty years of tuning Steinways grands in concert halls had developed a hatred for all classical music.

etrautmann 4y ago

No need to invoke quantum physics woo here to make the same point. One synapse in from the peripheral senses, the information is all just neurons spiking. That’s a compressed, lossy, and time delayed model of the real world before information has even hit the brain.

photochemsyn 4y ago
Neurons spiking is a lot of quantum woo, as you put it. Collapse of an electric charge gradient across a membrane, neurotransmitters being released and binding to receptors, etc., all involve various QM processes. I was however thinking more about photon scattering, reflection, and emission from so-called material objects, well before those photons hit the rods and cones in the eye.