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submitted 2 weeks ago by Laura@lemmy.ml to c/philosophy@lemmy.ml

If nothing interacts with it, does it exist?

Not “unknown”. Not “unobserved”.

I mean: no interaction at all.

Because in experiments, nothing happens inside a system on its own.

Events only appear when something meets something else.

So maybe this is the real question:

Is existence something things have—

or something that only appears when things interact?

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[-] Laura@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I see what you mean. But what kind of state are you assuming when you say “observation”? Whose observation are we talking about?

If the way something “exists” depends on the observer, then the definition of existence itself might shift quite a bit.

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