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Originally Posted by Flint
#2 According to the best scientific evidence available to ants, ants will conclude that ants have a very significant place in the universe.
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The approach I am going to take here is probably the opposite of the ones in my above posts
Could consciousness somehow be important to the universe?
Haven't scientists found that by observing fundamental physics experiments, they themselves 'force' the universe to choose between the possible results. Their tests seems to show that quantum physics situations that go unobserved remain in a state of probability rather than having a fixed solution. If that is the case, then the universe really does need someone with consciousness to observe it in order to somehow cause it to become what it is, otherwise it would be a fuzzy blob of vagueness with no definition.
(yes, this is sort of the opposite of what I had said earlier, but it seems both positions though more or less opposite are totally unprovable. So this idea might be true and the other thing I said about parallel universes might be bunk. Which would be better?)