So if quantum physics teaches us something interesting about the nature of reality and consciousness, it is this: what happens in the world of quantum particles depends of the presence of an observer, when there is no observer, there can be 'superposition', which means that a particle can be at two places at the same time (cf the famous double-slit experiment) ... there is a fundamental 'indetermination' (cf the famous Schrödinger's cat experiment - see hereunder) ... iow only the presence of an observer determines a precise position ...
But then, as the physical 'macro-world' we live in is but a sum of quantum particles, it means that a given situation is the result of the presence of an observer, and that this particular situation is but the result of a 'consistent' state created by the observer himself ... 'consistent' with what ? consistent with thoughts/beliefs/desires/fears of the observer, what else ? ... otherwise said that we create our own reality out of an infinity of other (superposed) possibilities ... and that the resulting situation created is consistent with what we think and believe or want ... giving to the world an illusion of reality and continuity ... which has been called 'Maya' in Hinduism and Buddhism ...
Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.
This vision is also totally in line with the Law of Attraction which states that we 'attract' situations that happen to us by our own thoughts and beliefs (including our 'emotional' desires and fears). This is like a TV-set 'tuning in' a specific 'channel' of reality, among an infinity of other 'superposed possibilities' or 'channels' in the air ... we really 'create' our world with our thoughts ...
"It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the conclusion that the content of the consciousness is an ultimate reality."
Eugene Wigner - (Remarks on the Mind-Body Question, Eugene Wigner, in Wheeler and Zurek, p.169) - received Nobel Prize in 1963 for 'Quantum Symmetries'
From: http://www.informationphilosopher.com/s ... ts/wigner/
And I leave the last word to Thomas Campbell:
"Reality is a product of consciousness."