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To: Charliss who wrote (4857)	12/13/2000 9:01:03 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) of 28931

there is no ONE reality. I would be pleased to learn how you know this to be true. The study of Quantum Mechanics (QM) tells us this is true. Things only exist as probabilities, even those things we assume are "for sure". There are numerous experiments that tell us at the scale of the very small, there is indeterminism. This can be interpreted as multiple realities that ultimately collapse to a single state. The "collapse of the wave equation" is the cornerstone of what physicists believe is the sensible reality that we experience. However small differences due to the state of the observer relative to the observed event tell us that no two observers can see exactly the same thing. It is simply impossible. This is not just some funny math trick, it is real (as real as the term "real" allows us to get). And since what two observers experience is different, that corresponds to different realities. Due to chaos and the sensitivity of the equations of state to initial values, this small scale uncertainty cascades to the macroscopic. Even systems that start off identical end up in different "states" due to the effects of QM. I believe (can't prove) that the mind is an agent in this process like a radio participates in the transmission and reception of broadcasts using very low energy quantum states. This is speculative but has its basis in a number of effects involving the interaction of the person with the environment they are in. It would seem that there is reality, and then there is fantasy. What can be truly fearful except fantasy, and who turns to fantasy unless he despairs of satisfaction in reality? If reality dispels fears, would we not exchange our fears for truth, if we knew that the exchange is ours for the asking? I don't know why reality would dispel fear. Fear is an emotional response to a set of inputs. These fears could be rational (based upon sensate reality) or irrational (not based upon reality). There are a large class of phenomena where we all may have access to indeterminate future states (ones that haven't gelled yet). Ultimately you are a brain behind a crystal dome. The crystal dome is "created" for you as an artifact of potentially faulty senses (perhaps inconclusive or imprecise is a better word). These senses are easily fooled and your brain's job is to make sense of it. There is, IMO, no objective reality of absolute order. There are general things that we can agree upon to some degree but that is about it.

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