This is something I've been wondering lately:
Can a question—or observation itself—bring reality into being, rather than just reveal it?
A recent paper I came across explores this idea from a scientific angle. It suggests that "reality" might not be fully real until there's a certain structural correlation between the observer and what is being observed.
That sounds abstract, I know. But in this view, observation isn't just passive—it helps stabilize what we call reality.
I wrote a short essay (in English) summarizing the idea:
👉 https://medium.com/@takamii26_37/do-questions-create-reality-on-observation-reality-and-the-shape-of-consciousness-7a9a425d2f41
Would love to hear what others think. Does this resonate with any philosophical frameworks you know of?
It's important to keep in mind that the contextual realism of Pris and Benoist rejects terms like "subjectivity" and "consciousness" as it is a direct realist philosophy. We do not take the treat realized before us as a "subjective" tree created by our "consciousness" but the real objective tree as it exists in the real world independently of the conscious observer, but dependent upon the context of its realization. It is important to be clear with the language in order to not slip into idealism.
Thank you. I feel that we may be talking past each other slightly.
My interest here is not in defending or rejecting any particular philosophical realism, but in discussing the experimental results reported in the paper I linked.
In particular, the paper reports statistically significant temporal correlations between human EEG data and outcomes of remote quantum measurements.
Based on these experimental findings, the paper proposes a new framework in which subjectivity is described as a nonlocal quantum coherence state, and consciousness is understood as emerging through gravitational decoherence of that state.
With this paper in mind, I would very much appreciate hearing your views.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398259486_Empirical_Subjectivity_Intersection_Observer-Quantum_Coherence_Beyond_Existing_Theories_Unifying_Relativity_Quantum_Mechanics_and_Cosmology