Reply #135: I can't speak for your pot

[Warren DeMontague]

but "things" are mostly empty space.. but also, and this is implied by the double slit experiment, among other things- the part that isn't "empty space" the "stuff", as it were-- isn't anything remotely resembling what we take for granted as commonsense notions about "stuff". Electrons, for example (although other subatomic particles also tend to get 'smeared out' as per their assosciated probability waves) don't actually have a "location", at least not when you're not looking for one.

Anyway, demonstrating quantum effects at a macroscopic level is a schrodinger's cat of another color, as is making quantum mechanics gel with macroscopic relativity. We shall see. All I know is, in MY life and the lives of certain people I know, I've seen plenty of weird shit manifest -stuff that defies the logic of newtonian "common sense"- and when I press myself for explanations (believe me- no one is a bigger skeptic on this stuff than me. That's why certain experiences carry so much weight in my own mind.. because I was NOT easy to convince) things like quantum interconnectedness, or a non-local basis for consciousness, or a bi-directional or non-linear component to time.. make as much sense as anything.

Really, what I suspect is, that our theories and particularly our crude, primitive primate semantic structures don't come close to being able to describe anything resembling what's "really" going on, not yet at least.

And I don't even smoke pot anymore, so I don't have that as an excuse.