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I recently came across a theory from Japan that tries to rethink physics from the standpoint of the observer. (fedia.io)

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I recently came across a theory from Japan that tries to rethink physics from the standpoint of the observer.

Instead of treating reality as something fully given “out there,” it suggests that reality may emerge when certain structural conditions of the observer are satisfied.

What I found interesting is that it reframes the gap between relativity and quantum mechanics as a problem about how the observer is defined.

Philosophically, it feels closely related to the question of whether observation is passive or constitutive of reality.

It’s summarized in a short video, so if you’re interested, I’d really appreciate your thoughts: https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/c714dc8c-eb93-4317-b369-8e57fac880fc?artifac

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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Does this person have any peer-reviewed papers? They all seem to be on ResearchGate or academia.edu. According to his profile on the former, his credentials are a bachelor of business administration, and being "founder of SIEL subjectivity intersection emergence lab". This is not super confidence inducing.

It seems the foundational evidence for his theories is his "Non local EEG-Quantum Experiment" which claims to find correlations between EEGs and the outputs of a distant cloud quantum computer. I haven't looked at the details but my concern would be that if you look broadly enough for some pattern in data you will certainly find one.