Tuesday, November 30, 2010  What happens when we're not looking?
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it,
does it really make a sound? The real question is of course -
can we be sure of anything that happens outside of our cognitive
senses? If we don't experience something, how can we say that it
happens? In the case of reality and falling trees in woods the
answer is fairly simple. Anything in that happens in the world
has some effect on something else, so even if we don't see step
a, we can deduce that step a must've happened because we can see
step c. If the ground is wet we can assume it is because it has
rained even if we never saw the rain. This is much how advanced
physics actually works. When astronomers claim to have found new
planets they rarely actually see the planets, they rather deduce
that they have to be there because of effect they see on
surroundings objects, like stars. So that's how reality works.
But not necessarily how it works in a game. A game is set up by
the ru