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Can we really observe/understand/know the truth without affecting it?
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That is the essence of QM...that the observer, just by the act of making an observation, affects the outcome (reality) of that which is being observed. Essentially, there is no such thing as a truly objective observation and that in making the observation you are affecting (and effecting) the reality of what you're observing. This also predicates that the observer and the observed are connected at fundamental level. No matter how small the effect of the observations are, they are still evidence of the interrelatedness of everything. The distinction between the observed and the observer is nothing more than a matter of perspective. It could be argued they are one and the same.