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Letter: Reality before consciousness

Published 3 June 2015

From Alan Wilson

You consider the question of whether consciousness creates reality (2 May, p 33). But surely at some point the universe existed before any consciousness was capable of observing it.

I prefer to believe that the universe is strange, particularly on a quantum level. I hope it remains so.
Colmworth, Bedfordshire, UK

Issue no. 3024 published 6 June 2015

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