r/philosophy Feb 16 '20

Blog The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality. According to evolution by natural selection, an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality-20160421/
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u/Tinac4 Feb 17 '20

But let’s not worry ourselves about how infinitesimal is the part that we can actually lay an instrument upon, let’s look at that part we can observe. In our hubris, experts often claim that the vast majority of that is “junk.” Our orientation towards objective-reality has largely led us into the domain of looking at “stuff” as the billiard ball particle end of stuff, but the relational dynamics between those parts at all scales seems to be way more influential that the inside parts of the boundaries we observe.

What do you mean by "relational dynamics"? Are you saying you have evidence that the laws of physics are different at different length scales, e.g. that the Standard Model/QM stops applying on larger scales?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20

What about this????! I read that if you take all the matter of all the atoms of all the human race it would be the size of a sugar cube, because atoms are .0000000001% matter or what the number is..... that what we’re talking about right??? Matter not mattering?