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So, IF you use the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, then everything is a relation. You can interpret quantum mechanics in this way. It's a valid interpretation. But it's not like quantum mechanics specifically leads you to this interpretation over others.
Comment by ambisinister_gecko at 25/02/2025 at 16:22 UTC
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You also don't even need QM to think of the world as full of relationships rather than standalone objects. Even Relativity strongly hints at it. But a bit of philosophy and you realize, everything only has the properties it has because it has those properties *in relation to something else*. Properties of objects are meaningless if they're not in relationship to anything.
Comment by Doormancer at 25/02/2025 at 17:50 UTC
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Isn’t this all very similar to a lot of the ideas in Eastern philosophy? The idea of everything being interconnected, or even existing as a whole? And any interactions or movements which exist only do so in relation to other components of this thing we call the universe.