At a lecture I heard the following quote, “There is no such thing as objective reality, just imaginary moments that become real.” This is a quote of what the lecturer said, although he may have been paraphrasing. The lecturer credited the quote to a philosopher, but did not name the philospher. The impression left by the lecturer was that the philosopher was from the 20th century.
As a physicist, I am extremely curious about what the philosopher was asserting. It is very hard to agree or disagree with, or to even interpret, a one sentence statement, but it is intriguing.
Does any member or visitor to this website have any idea who the philosopher was that put forth the above assertion? I would like to read some of his or her works, and then hopefully induce a discussion of the concept.
I am baffled too. Someone ought to step down on his toe-hard! But you should not be surprised. Cicero once famously said, “There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not said it.” Now Cicero lived more than 2,000 years ago, so you can imagine how even since then philosophers have had a chance to speak a lot more nonsense. And, in the 20th century Heidegger and his crew began to write and a whole slew of rich fertilizer began to flow.
You ought to take care which lectures you attend. Many people, like the main character of the mystery show, The Shadow, have acquired the “power to cloud men’s minds”.