Shaping Reality

There is present in the discussion of various sciences the notion of reductionism. For example, some see biology as simply actions of chemistry and physics. Some see psychology as the result of biology, and therefore the predictable result of physics: your mind is simply a programmed expression of physical chemical and electrical reactions, and freewill is an illusion.

At the same time, students of quantum physics tell us remarkable things. For example the state of many processes is not definite until observed. Imagine a tap being fed by two pipes. One feeds red liquid to it and the other feeds blue liquid to it. When liquid is flowing out of one into the tap, the other is shut off completely. The position of a lever determines which liquid is flowing, but the lever is right in the middle. A micro-movement in one direction or the other determines which liquid flows. There is no middle spot that will allow both or neither to flow. Which color is flowing? We don’t know. But according to the studies of quantum physics, the reason we don’t know is not because we haven’t observed; it’s because both or neither are happening. Or in our reality one is occurring while on a parallel timeline, the other is happening.

Apparently the act of observing triggers one or the other to happen….and does so quite randomly. So we are taken to the notion that consciousness determines physics.  This is suggestive of what is discussed at http://gordonfeil.blogspot.ca/2016/11/what-is-reality.html and at https://gordon-feil-practical-living.blogspot.ca/2016/12/where-is-sanity.html.

It’s a confusing world sometimes. Consciousness shapes physics while physics determines consciousness.  Can both be right? Can both the blue and red flow at the same time?  How small we are!  How deficient is our understanding!