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Re:Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori ... by psychoslave on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @10:23AM (#29980483)
Also remember none of those things would have been possible without you observing it.

https://www.nsta.org/q-if-tree-falls-forest-and-theres-no-on...

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Re:Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori ... by auslegung on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:13AM (#29993164)
That’s not true. That’s a very human-centric way to view things. If no humans exist things would still happen. If there was no life anywhere things would still happen.
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Re:Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori ... by psychoslave on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:10AM (#30116486)
I think this response comes from an inter-misunderstanding. In this context, "none of these things" referred to "none of this perceptions". Things like "color" and "beauty" only exists through the prism of entities which somehow feel them.

Only through solipsism one might think that nothing would exist without the current conscientiousness stream.

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