My Octopus Teacher.

[Toehammer]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The very act of observation is interaction.

False.

As an example: when the Sun emits a photon, 8.33 minutes later it strikes your eye... you are interacting with the photon not the Sun. Technically, things interact when they change each other's momentum (or exchange force carrier particles).

A semantic argument might be that the Sun births a photon that hits your eye so that is an "interaction" but interaction means something very specific! If we used that semantic argument, then eventually everything would be considered interacting with everything else, and the meaning of interaction (Newton's 3rd Law) loses all meaning.

The silliest trick Feynman ever pulled was not telling people that Feynman diagrams are just a vector representation of Newton's 3 Laws with a squiggly line.

Observation and interaction is at the heart of quantum mechanics and the measurement problem... be careful making these sorts of general philosophical extrapolations of QM!

[HalflingSpergand]

Tldr Observation cant be interaction or else all these jews are liars

[magnetaress]

The photon interacts with the sun. Then the photon interacts with us. We aren't necessarily interacting with the sun. Though. Really. We feel thr sun and the sun feeds us. We are a part of the sun. Without the sun we would not exist. We don't need interaction for connection.

Without humans the very nature of the world would change. Without octopi the nature of the kelp forest changes. In this way the forest responds to its environment. Our conciousness reaches our sun. Just as the forests and plankton reach us. We have even sent ships to touch our sun. Pull on its gravity and slingshot around it.

[RecondoJoe]

I cried, LOL. I also won't eat Octopus anymore. After seeing how hard it is for that animal to struggle... not really interested in supporting the hunting of it.