
What Is Reality?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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The Job of Physics Is to Define Reality
Sophe: We all have this private, subjective experience from the moment you wake up in the morning. But that is a construction of your brain and it sometimes has very little to do with what's in the outside world. The job of physics is to describe things as they really are, and the job of biology is to sort out the mistakes. If we didn't have some shared reality, we wouldn't be able to use language, because words wouldn't have the same meaning.
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