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Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle and Disney's Coco / An inquiry of inquiries

~tetris

(Apologies bartender for not checking in more, was distracted with sobriety)

I was watching one of PBS's fantastic youtube videos, and this one was titled "Does the Universe Create Itself?"[1], which is based on the works of John Wheeler who invented the Participatory Anthropic Principle[2], which gives an explanation of quantum physics different than the many-worlds or Copenhagen interpretation (whatever the hell that actually is).

In short, he states that the universe comes to shape under the measurement of multiple observers who each affect what the universe is by their measurement. Before the universe was measured, it was never defined and never existed. And.... since light travels so slowly, us observing the big bang (and therefore our creation) influences it too.

It's kind of crazy and lovely at the same time and reminded me of two things: Interstellar and Inquiry (who I think has been yammering about this stuff for a while).

Since I do not like the movie Instellar (get over yourself Murphy), I will talk about the Pixar movie Coco which deals with a boy who visits the Land of the Dead and comes to the knowledge that spirits only exist in that Land while someone in the living world still remembers them.

I'm not sure how to finish this post, so I'll just shout out "GNU tetris" a few times.

GNU tetris

Also, this reminds me of sojourners recent post 884.

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1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8p1yqnuk8Y

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler#Participatory_Anthropic_Principle

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~inquiry wrote:

Not that I understand either fully, but I find the "Mind Only" droning in the "Lankavatara Sutra" to be a sort of taken-the-full-distance take on said "Participatory Anthropic Principle" theme.