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Stephen Downes

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MIT Technology Review recently published an article entitled "A quantum experiment suggests there's no such thing as objective reality. Of course, the suggestion fell far short of a proof, but that didn't stop people from speculating. I personally fall into the 'no objective reality' camp, but not because of quantum physics. Anyhow, what's interesting about this set of short articles is that they make clear how important is the interpretation of any objective evidence. No data, no matter how concrete, speaks for itself; what it means depends on what we recognize it to be.

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