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Most scientists think that reality can be accurately described while ignoring human subjectivity, as Buccheri points out in this volume. The observer’s sense of being, the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness [1] is considered not just irrelevant but an impossible problem [2,3]. Even those who think consciousness can be explained but only after the discovery of some ‘new physics’ [4], believe that reality can be objectively analysed without taking account of the mind of the observer or thinker. But they are wrong. Here, I show that failure to take the human mind into account in physics causes confusion about time and makes us attribute properties to the physical world that really arise from consciousness.
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Sanfey, J. (2003). Reality, and Those who Perceive it. In: Buccheri, R., Saniga, M., Stuckey, W.M. (eds) The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics and Perception. NATO Science Series, vol 95. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0155-7_11
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