现实的本质

Can everything that exists be reduced to quantum physics, or is conscious experience more fundamental, asks Karmela Padavic-Callaghan I MAGINE you could take a cosmic mixing bowl and cook up reality from scratch. It would be a strange kind of baking, with the end results including everything from space-time and satellites to cats and the cosmic web. But here’s the question: what would be the basic ingredient you’d need to use? conscious experience. “That’s what is fundamentally real,” says Adam Frank at the University of Rochester in New York state, one of the book’s co-authors. Deciding whether either of these stances – or something in between – is correct matters for more than just my own peace of mind. …