If you're referring to quantum effects; there, the concept of observer influence
is understood, and can be - as it were - quantified..
My understanding, though I'm not a physicist, is that observer influence is a reandom influence, and can never really be discounted.
But there are physicists here who can answer better than I can.
Philosophically, science in the past 200 or so years has taken on some of the roles which religion had in earlier societies. It also takes on many of the attributes of religion. The belief in unity, the belief in interconnectedness, the belief that if you do the rituals / experiments in the right way you will get the right results, etc. We like to think that science is -- well, more scientific than religion. I'm not sure that's true. I think we may just have replaced one belief system with another, both having complete validity within their own set of parameters, neither being sufficient unto itself to explain the mysteries of the universe, of life, of self-awareness, of what happens to us after death. |
