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Letter: Do we make reality? Maybe, maybe not (3)

Published 30 October 2024

From Patrick Butterly, Buckfastleigh, Devon, UK

Oriti, a theoretical physicist, says that “we have to embrace the fact that we make reality”. That might come as a shock to scientists, but not to poets and novelists: they have always thought it obvious that reality inheres not in the common phenomenal world, but in the perceptions of that world in individual minds.

Issue no. 3515 published 2 November 2024

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