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From: clipka
Date: 13 Sep 2009 06:15:33
Message: <4aacc645@news.povray.org>
Darren New schrieb:
> Well, the point remains that "observation" is not the same as 
> "interaction with another particle."

Actually it is - the observing apparatus (be it a human or a measuring 
equipment) being comprised of particles, and the observation being 
performed by having the particle actually interact.

The interesting thing here being that there is no such thing as an 
outside observer in this entire universe (as, by definition, such an 
observer would obviously have to be not in but outside of it).

I guess it is safe to claim that a flesh-and-blood human being is not an 
outside observer in this sense.


Or, to put it in other words: Observation is an illusion. The only thing 
we have is interaction.


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