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originally posted by: Openminded2023
Ok, this is a weird theory, so bear with me. One of the precepts of quantum theory, is that the act of observation affects outcome. IE the observer affects reality in the act of observation.
So here is my thought. Before the internet existed, most people at best, shared their thoughts with a small circle of people. So a shared group of people having a discussion, might have a small net effect on a small portion of physical reality in a shared observation about something. Now we have the internet, with literally billions of people sharing thoughts and observations among a much larger group. Since you now have a larger group of people sharing these thoughts and observations, its possible that the net effect of their cumulative observation might be much greater, affecting our general reality in a more noticeable way. In addition, there is a polarization of thought among groups of people, which could actually focus the observation affecting outcome affect almost like a lens focuses light. In effect, we might be changing our entire reality by doing this, and we might be in a totally different outcome because of this mass cumulative polarization of thought and observation. I know I have heard a lot of people on this site say that they have felt something is "off" the past few years, and we have seen a change in our society as well. Now maybe its just because we are becoming a more interconnected society and that's affecting us sociologically, or maybe its what I have posited. At any rate, I thought i would throw this out there and see what other people think about it.
originally posted by: namehere
yes, to some degree, because information is a physical thing just like energy or matter, Internet isn't yet big enough to effect our local area of the universe but one day there will be enough information to physically effect us.