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yes it is simplistic, but im not sure its wrong. there is a pot of salt here on my desk and as i look at it, its a pot of salt. even if i stop looking at it, its still a pot of salt. what does quantum physics have to say about my pot of salt? what is the quantifiable effect which my looking /not looking have on it?
if you and i look at a colour pallete, we may agree, that is brown, that is green that is yellow etc, but our actual ides of what the colours are may differ wildly. so my brown might be your purple, but as we both point at the same color and agree on its name, it does not change its actual colour.
what we call something, or the context we put it in, imagined or otherwise, doesnt change what it is.
just because a consciousness witnesses something, or not, it does not change what it is, only that we percieve it, and indeed, how.
is is is.