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   From: absfg_wilson@yahoo.com   
      
   On 9/16/2016 1:05 AM, liaM wrote:   
   > On 9/16/2016 6:31 AM, Nobody in Particular wrote:   
   >>   
   >> One of my all-time favorite quotes is by the quantum physicist Bernard   
   >> d'Espagnat, the teacher of Alain Aspect (of the famous Aspect   
   >> Experiment):   
   >> "The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is   
   >> independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with   
   >> quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment."   
   >> -- Bernard d'Espagnat   
   >>   
   >> You appear to take the opposing view.   
   >>   
   >   
   > What facts ?  What experiments ?   
      
   The facts and the experiments that were conducted by human consciousness   
   of course.   
      
   So apparently we have human consciousness "proving" that nothing exists   
   outside of the experience of human consciousness.   
      
   Damn that snake.   
      
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