What this sounds like is simply a restatement of the basic principles of existentialism, as defined by Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. That is, that there is no real objective reality, only that which we “create” through an “act of will”. The “observer effect” as defined by Schrodinger is another aspect of this (i.e., the cat is neither alive nor dead until you open the box and look, which triggers the widget which kills Kitty).
What this means beyond intellectual game-playing is difficult to “see”. To follow the Star Trek analogy, as Spock said in “Court Martial”, “If I drop this pen, in a gravity field, I do not need to see it hit the floor to know that it has, in fact, done so.”
It will be interesting to see how much of the astrophysics community adopts this hypothesis as the basis for experiment. My estimate is, not very many actual workers in the field will. No, they’re not “stick in the mud” types- they just prefer to deal with quantifiable facts that can be confirmed or denied by actual evidence. Something which this hypothesis argues can never really be obtained.
While this is no doubt an appealing “philosophy” to post-modern intellectuals who fervently want to believe that the world is whatever they conceive it to be, its actual usefulness in the real world is probably minimal. That won’t stop said intellectuals from claiming that it “proves” they are Always Right About Everything.
Even if it is simply “old wine in new bottles”.
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