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mk  ·  4578 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It from bit
    There may be an absolute truth, but I guarantee we'll never discover it with our senses.

IMO absolute truth can be detected: If you perform a similar action in similar circumstances, you get a similar result. And importantly, the more similar the input the more simpliar the output. The asympote is the absolute truth, -it cannot be altered.

IMHO Wheeler was mistaking causation for a foundation of reality. I see the behavior of quantum entities to be no less strange than the relativity of simultaneity. Sure, quantum events can defy our notions of causation, but they will do it the same way every time. I think we can say 'reality is strange' without having to conclude that it depends on us.