EU – Quiz1

1. If a tree falls in the forest and no one’s around to hear it, does it make a sound?

2. In theory, under what circumstances could extraterrestrial life exist on a nearby planet, undetectable to our eyes, even when augmented by our most advanced telescopes, etc?

3. Which of the following suggests that our universe is a simulation?

4. Dig Deeper:

Imagine a conversation between the Kabbalist, Baal HaSulam and one of the scientists below. How does the thinking of the scientist fit with that of Baal HaSulam when he writes, “Take our sense of sight for example: We see a wide world before us, wondrously filled. But in fact we see all that only in our interior. In other words, there is a sort of photographic machine in our hind-brain which portrays everything that appears to us, and nothing outside of us. There is in our brain a kind of polished mirror that inverts everything seen there so we will see it outside our brain in front of our face. Yet what we see outside us is not a real thing.” 

• “In the last analysis, we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.”

-Max Planck

Nobel Prize 1918

• “Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental.”

-Erwin Schrodinger 

Nobel Prize 1933

• “Contemporary science, today more than at any previous time, has been forced by Nature herself to pose again the question of the possibility of comprehending reality by mental processes.”

-Werner Heisenberg

• “We are not only observers, we are participants.”

John Wheeler