Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe (quantamagazine.org)

Sounds like a cosmic egg waiting to hatch.

I have come to believe that consciousness is the fundamental state of the universe, and the brain is simply a filtering mechanism to the "real world", lots of papers show that on psychedelics, where the observer is seeing/feeling larger than life, the brain activity in areas actually goes down.

Of course we don't really know how the brain works, and I do wonder if you were on psychedelics for a looong period of time it would become normal, maybe some MKUltra victims can help with that lol.

Very interesting. Almost feels like a cosmic implementation of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

This reminds of Henri Bergson somehow.

I'm curious if this links up to the uncertainty principle in a non what's the word manner. A manner which isn't elementary, arbitrary, basic, something along those lines but I can't remember the word.