Gribbin (1989: xvii):
Quantum physics has provided the "answer" to the first of the three great metaphysical puzzles. It says … that nothing is real, in the everyday meaning of the term.
So quantum physics tackles the fundamental puzzle of what things do when you are not looking at them, and whether they are really real even if you are looking at them.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, there is no "ultimate" nature of reality, since reality is a construal of experience as meaning, and meaning evolves as it adapts to the changing environments in which it is required to function — including environmental changes that it makes possible.
What quantum physics actually says is that you cannot say "what things do when you are not looking at them", and as Richard Feynman pointed out, to do so 'is to produce an error'. And what Systemic Functional Linguistic theory says is that this is precisely because experience is only construed as things when an observation is made.
What quantum physics actually says is that you cannot say "what things do when you are not looking at them", and as Richard Feynman pointed out, to do so 'is to produce an error'. And what Systemic Functional Linguistic theory says is that this is precisely because experience is only construed as things when an observation is made.
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