- There may be an absolute truth, but I guarantee we'll never discover it with our senses.
IMO absolute truth can be detected: If you perform a similar action in similar circumstances, you get a similar result. And importantly, the more similar the input the more simpliar the output. The asympote is the absolute truth, -it cannot be altered. IMHO Wheeler was mistaking causation for a foundation of reality. I see the behavior of quantum entities to be no less strange than the relativity of simultaneity. Sure, quantum events can defy our notions of causation, but they will do it the same way every time. I think we can say 'reality is strange' without having to conclude that it depends on us.
It might be turtles all the way down; but if we have every reason to believe that it doesn't switch to rabbits unexpectedly, then maybe that's what we should start to consider to be 'the grand answer': It's turtles all the way down. We can still gather more information about these turtles, but why look for the foundation under the last turtle when there is nothing to suggest there is one? Turtles all the way is the foundation.
Conceptual coin flip. One could counter by challenging the notion of "causality". A choice to be made is a Given. :)IMHO Wheeler was mistaking causation for a foundation of reality.
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