From proton particles being projected through pin holes and people who change their behaviour when being watched I wonder if it is the act of or the awareness of?
2006-07-09 13:33:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
You know you asked this in Social Science, not physics, huh?
Photons clearly do not have awareness, right?
I've been trying to figure this one out for years, and have done a lot of reading, and am no better at explaining (or maybe even understanding) than I ever was. With light, it's the wave/particle duality you're asking about, and even when the data from experiments are read AFTER the experiment is over, the results are the same, so it certainly isn't even the measuring that causes the behavior, much less light or matter's awareness of it .
With people, it's a whole different issue. Measuring human behavior doesn't change it at all, but watching someone, if they know you're watching, often does, so in that case, it's the observation that changes the behavior.
2006-07-09 13:59:57 · answer #1 · answered by LazlaHollyfeld 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is not the act of observing in and of itself a state "awareness"?
2006-07-09 20:47:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that I change my behavious out of self-consciousness when I know that I'm being watched.
2006-07-09 20:38:12 · answer #3 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps just the pressence of the watcher. spirtual and physical.
2006-07-09 20:46:44 · answer #4 · answered by dennisheikka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE AWARENESS, TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS HAD TO MODEL. YOU ARE CHANGED FOREVER
2006-07-09 20:36:25 · answer #5 · answered by starfruitlily 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are always being watched
2006-07-09 20:39:05 · answer #6 · answered by ballin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it does.
2006-07-09 20:37:32 · answer #7 · answered by cigarnation 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both do.
2006-07-09 20:36:55 · answer #8 · answered by Samuel Gravina 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋