My apologies for barging into a debate “Why DID we evolve into humans.” I understand the scientific criteria required to substantiate factual information. I appreciate what is revealed through genetics, palaeontology, anthropology, etc., and can only marvel.
It was said, as being precisely true, that because there is no instantaneous transmission of information, the act of observation must always occur at some point in time following the event. I think of sound as an example of instantaneous transmission of information. If sound, per se, cannot be observed after the event is it therefore nonexistent and unprovable?
I referred to the emotion of love. I was thinking of the myriad manifestations of human emotions, including love and hate. For example one might witness an act of genocide. In that moment is there no instantaneous transmission of information? Is the reality only observable after the event?
There is one particular conundrum in my mind that I wish someone could answer. Before Isaac Newton developed a complete mathematical formulation of the mechanistic view of nature that remained the solid foundation of scientific thought well into the 20th century, does it follow that gravity, etc., did not exist until it was accurately measured and quantified? Or was it the formulation and articulation of existing phenomena that admitted conscious acceptance?
And, if basic structures of the material world are determined, ultimately, by the way we look at this world; that the observed patterns of matter are reflections of patterns of mind - was Albert Einstein wide of the mark in saying, “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”?