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submitted 1 week ago by Laura@lemmy.ml to c/openscience@lemmy.ml

In my previous post, I shared a paper that influenced how I frame the question of observation and reality.

I want to follow up with a more focused point, rather than a conclusion.

What struck me in this work is that it carefully avoids a strong causal claim. Observation is not treated as something that forces physical systems to behave in a certain way.

Instead, the data seem more consistent with the idea that observation marks an intersection— a point where observer-related information and physical processes become mutually constrained, allowing a particular reality to stabilize.

This shifts the question for me: not “Does observation create reality?” but “What kind of process allows a reality to become stable at the intersection of perspectives and physical systems?”

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