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by auslegung 1616 days ago
I saw a tree yesterday. It was beautiful. The sun was close to setting, the sky was completely clear. The color of the sky went from a beautiful clear blue down to a very pale almost green color at the horizon, backdropping the tree. I may remember this the rest of my life.
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Also remember none of those things would have been possible without you observing it.

https://www.nsta.org/q-if-tree-falls-forest-and-theres-no-on...

That’s not true. That’s a very human-centric way to view things. If no humans exist things would still happen. If there was no life anywhere things would still happen.
I think this response comes from an inter-misunderstanding. In this context, "none of these things" referred to "none of this perceptions". Things like "color" and "beauty" only exists through the prism of entities which somehow feel them.

Only through solipsism one might think that nothing would exist without the current conscientiousness stream.