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Originally Posted by tecoyah
If indeed, as we now understand, at a subatomic level all things become only possibilities (Quantum Mechanics) at what point do things simply cease to exist in the context of our reality. If I can type on this keyboard, and feel the plastic, yet I know the keys are made up of Atomic particles which are made up of Quarks, which are made up of something even smaller which eventually leads to Quantum fluctuations, undefined until I notice them.....what makes my keyboard real?
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You might be interested to know that you never touch your keyboard, or anything else. What you feel when you "touch" something is the electrical fields of the atoms in your fingers repelling the electrical fields of whatever you think you're touching. You never actually get close enough to touch it.
Oh, and what you see as your keyboard is actually your brain's interpretation of stimuli from your various sense organs. So for all you know your brain's "interpretive center" for want of a better term, is screwed up, and what you see as a gray keyboard, looks to me like what yellow looks like to you.
Get down to the infinitesimal level and it's easy to mess with people's perceptions
