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derrickgranton Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

Can someone tell the deodorant manufacturers please? It's very hard to find aluminium free anti-perspirant in the uk

derrickgranton Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds

Here's the full transcript of the Alan Watts lecture

http://thinkyhead.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/alan-watts-philosop...

derrickgranton Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds

Guys I'm a total quantum physics noob but when I read this post I couldn't help but think of Alan Watts and the Taoist definition of the theory of time (quoted below). HN in your opinion how does this theory hold up to the to new finding (if at all)?

Big thanks to anyone taking the time to humour me, I really appreciate your time.

'So when you have this happening the other illusion that a Westerner is liable to have is that it's determined in the sense that what is happening now follows necessarily from what happened in the past. But you don't know anything about that in your primal ignorance. Cause and effect? Why, obviously not! Ha ha ha! Because if you're really na•ve you see that the past is the result of what's happening now. It goes backwards into the past like a wake goes backwards from a ship.'