Physics, Phases: Objectivity, Subjectivity, Creativity

Newton and his cohorts treated physics and reality as a lab specimen to be examined, treating themselves as the objective fair examiners of what there is. It did not cross their mind that this "lab specimen" -- reality -- is aware of it being examined, and it responds to the same. Not a shred of suspicion, so all their observations were considered by them fair and objective, and of course their logical analysis of the results was deemed a universal reasoning that was beyond doubt.

And then quantum mechanics popped up, teaching us that our observations change whatever we observe (provided it is small enough). Unlike Newton, we can't measure how things are when they are not measured, and indeed unmeasured reality is a persistent mystery which is covered by various "conspiracy theories," none of them is accompanied with any proof.

Last October (2025) the Applied Physics Research journal has published a thesis: "Negotiating Darwin's Barrier" which suggested that not only our observations are subjective, but also our analysis and inferential procedures are not as universal as we deemed them to be. Our thinking brain was constructed by successively meeting mortal threats, the very particular series of those threats is the de facto designer of our brain which was optimized to meet those threats, not to comprehend reality in general. Our entire mental capacity sits inside "Darwin's cage" so to speak, blind to everything else that reality has to offer.

In summary, in a total flip compared to Newtonian physics, both our measurements and our conclusions from these measurements are inheently subjective, leaving the objective reality way beyond our grasp.

Having moved from the illusion of understanding "objective reality" to undeerstanding a very "subjective reality" we must be brave and pose the obvious question: are we looking ahead towards a third phase: creative reality. Namely: the entire notion of reality as our 'home' is unfounded. We created it in our imagination. How is that possible? We observe hard observations, we see what we see -- how can all this be hallucinations? Well, we may not have a good answer to this question and for a good reason, we are too limited, too self absorbed, too confused.

Who knows we may all be a dream someone is dreaming. When that someone will wakeup the dream will vanish.

Let's admit our unbound confusion and immeserable ignorance, and with it hold on to our hope that the One for whom everything makes sense, will pity us, and guide us to emerge from this confusion, find meaning, purpose and good understanding of what is going on. Religion21.net