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In short, our “internal world” had nothing to do with the “outside real” world that had been the
main subject of interest of physicists from Aristotle to the present day. Physicists abandoned their old
ideas regarding this view and agreed that quantum understanding represented only “our knowledge”
of the physical system. The material world we can perceive exists solely as information in our brains.
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In other words, we can never obtain direct experience of matter in the outside world.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz, a neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry from University of California, de-
scribed this conclusion emerging from the Copenhagen Interpretation:

As John Archibald cracked, “No phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” 15

In summary, quantum mechanics’ all conventional interpretations depend on the existence of a “perceiving
being.” 16

Amit Goswami expanded on this insight:

Suppose we ask, Is the moon there when we are not looking at it? To the extent that the moon is ultimately
a quantum object (being composed entirely of quantum objects), we must say no—so says physicist David

Mermin. . . .

Perhaps the most important, and the most insidious, assumption that we absorb in our childhoods is that of
the material world of objects existing out there—independent of subjects, who are the observers. There is cir-

cumstantial evidence in favor of such an assumption. Whenever we look at the moon, for example, we find
the moon where we expect it along its classically calculated trajectory. Naturally we project that the moon is
always there in space-time, even when we are not looking. Quantum physics says no. When we are not look-
ing, the moon’s possibility wave spreads, albeit by a minuscule amount. When we look, the wave collapses

instantly; thus the wave could not be in space-time. It makes more sense to adapt an idealist metaphysic as-
sumption: There is no object in space-time without a conscious subject looking at it. 17

Hot objects, such as the
Light sometimes filament of a lightbulb,
behaves as a wave.
give out light.

Light sometimes behaves as a
stream of particles.

Max Planck proposed “quantum theory” in the early 20th century,
announcing that light had both wave-like and particle-like properties.

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