Comment by DyingToBeBorn on 24/02/2025 at 10:07 UTC

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View submission: Quantum mechanics suggests reality isn’t made of standalone objects but exists only in relations, transforming our understanding of the universe. | An interview with Carlo Rovelli on quantum mechanics, white holes and the relational universe.

So would mereological nihilism take us closer to quantum mechanics?

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Comment by DeliciousPie9855 at 24/02/2025 at 11:58 UTC

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More like interdependent origination — even the fundamental parts are not really independently or ultimately existent, but are rather the emergent properties of interactions. The interactions themselves are also not existent — they are the effects of the objects they co-create. Everything mutually co-creates and co-determines everything else.