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There’s no longer any need; that same fire is now alight inside me and is consuming all that I have ever been. I no longer feel things as I did before. No ties bind me to others, I treasure no memories, no desires drive me onwards.
Where before there had been a cause for every effect, now there was a spectrum of probabilities. In the deepest substrate of all things, physics had not found the solid, unassailable reality Schrödinger and Einstein had dreamt of, ruled over by a rational God pulling the threads of the world, but a domain of wonders and rarities, borne
of the whims of a many-armed goddess toying with chance.
“the phenomenon of life should be explained by the physical laws that govern the universe, which we may know through observation and the objective study of the facts of the world.”
Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation. A quantum object has no intrinsic properties.
