According to atheism-based science, there's this objective world that exists independent from our individual experiences and consciousness arose pretty much by happenstance. Of course, that's a philosophical assumption, not actual science, but it has created a bias that's so prevalent it's rarely questioned among mainstream science. Then there's that pesky quantum physics, which keeps suggesting something entirely different, that consciousness doesn't arise from reality, but that reality arises from consciousness:
The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured.
Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have conducted John Wheeler's delayed-choice thought experiment, which involves a moving object that is given the choice to act like a particle or a wave. Wheeler's experiment then asks -- at which point does the object decide?
Common sense says the object is either wave-like or particle-like, independent of how we measure it. But quantum physics predicts that whether you observe wave like behavior (interference) or particle behavior (no interference) depends only on how it is actually measured at the end of its journey. This is exactly what the ANU team found.
"It proves that measurement is everything. At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it," said Associate Professor Andrew Truscott from the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering.
