2026-09-25 07:01 UTC
If instead you think in terms of degree (and, in quantum terms, probability) reality starts looking very different.
It seems instead to be contextual and by degree.
In fact, "things", as we usually imagine them, do not seem to exist as independent entities at all.
The relational model of quantum physics (Rovelli) looks at reality as fundamentally relational.
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@KatyElphinstone@mas.to 2026-09-25 07:04
Here, "things" (systems, entities, etc., including both the material and the non-material) can be seen more like busy intersections of relationships. Connecting and overlapping. Nodes in a web. 🕸️ So what makes something real isn't that it exists completely independently of everything else. Quite the opposite, actually! It's real in relation. The relationships are primary. Not the "thing". ⬇️
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@thisislieven@c.im 2026-09-25 19:52
@KatyElphinstone@mas.to Basically, everything is a hole? Holes don't exist. There's no such thing. A hole only becomes a hole because of what surrounds it.