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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 7633811" data-attributes="member: 6788736"><p>Interestingly toddlers (up to about 7 months of age) <a href="https://veipd.org/earlyintervention/2013/03/21/peek-a-boo-strategies-to-teach-object-permanence/" target="_blank">lack object permanence</a>. This is why 'Peek-a-boo' works on them. </p><p></p><p>From their POV, you <em>literally </em>vanish from existence when you cant be observed, and then pop back in when they can observe you again.</p><p></p><p>Quantum theory currently asserts that this might actually be <strong>the real state of the universe</strong>, and all humans manage to do (at the age of 7 months) is fool ourselves into viewing the chaos of the universe as a consistent reality in order to interpret the chaos around us (develop <em>memory</em>, which may have a much more profound impact on reality than we assume) and mold that chaos into something we can comprehend.</p><p></p><p>As in; I know my car is parked downstairs because I remember parking it there (non-observational object permanence), and it's there when I go back to the car, but when I'm not observing it, it's not really 'downstairs' at all. It's only 'downstairs' because I altered reality to make it so.</p><p></p><p>A little like how an electron does not have both a position or momentum until you measure (observe) the bastard. The electron exists in a state of superposition, both everywhere in the universe, nowhere in the universe, going everywhere and going no-where, all at the same time. You cant meaningfully speak about what an electron is doing (or where it is) until that observation or measurement takes place.</p><p></p><p>Once you act on the electron (by measuring or observing it), only <em>then </em>does it become an 'electron with a position' or 'an electron with momentum'.</p><p></p><p>This isnt just semantics; it reflects the actual state of the unobserved electron. Everywhere and nowhere, doing everything and nothing, all at the same time. Until observed.</p><p></p><p>Sorry Einstein; God does indeed play dice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 7633811, member: 6788736"] Interestingly toddlers (up to about 7 months of age) [URL="https://veipd.org/earlyintervention/2013/03/21/peek-a-boo-strategies-to-teach-object-permanence/"]lack object permanence[/URL]. This is why 'Peek-a-boo' works on them. From their POV, you [I]literally [/I]vanish from existence when you cant be observed, and then pop back in when they can observe you again. Quantum theory currently asserts that this might actually be [B]the real state of the universe[/B], and all humans manage to do (at the age of 7 months) is fool ourselves into viewing the chaos of the universe as a consistent reality in order to interpret the chaos around us (develop [I]memory[/I], which may have a much more profound impact on reality than we assume) and mold that chaos into something we can comprehend. As in; I know my car is parked downstairs because I remember parking it there (non-observational object permanence), and it's there when I go back to the car, but when I'm not observing it, it's not really 'downstairs' at all. It's only 'downstairs' because I altered reality to make it so. A little like how an electron does not have both a position or momentum until you measure (observe) the bastard. The electron exists in a state of superposition, both everywhere in the universe, nowhere in the universe, going everywhere and going no-where, all at the same time. You cant meaningfully speak about what an electron is doing (or where it is) until that observation or measurement takes place. Once you act on the electron (by measuring or observing it), only [I]then [/I]does it become an 'electron with a position' or 'an electron with momentum'. This isnt just semantics; it reflects the actual state of the unobserved electron. Everywhere and nowhere, doing everything and nothing, all at the same time. Until observed. Sorry Einstein; God does indeed play dice. [/QUOTE]
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