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by teddyh 3262 days ago
“What is real? How do you define ‘real’? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste, and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”

The Matrix, 1999

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"Doth the reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?"

-- George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, 1713

And if a black hole falls into another black hole and no LIGO was listening, did it really produce a gravitational wave?