An Operational Definition of Objective Reality

Here’s a fas­ci­nat­ing lit­tle snap­shot of mod­ern sci­ence:

A team of US physi­cists has proved a the­o­rem that explains how our objec­tive, com­mon real­i­ty emerges from the sub­tle and sen­si­tive quan­tum world…

The Los Alam­os team define a prop­er­ty of a sys­tem as ‘objec­tive’, if that prop­er­ty is simul­ta­ne­ous­ly evi­dent to many observers who can find out about it with­out know­ing exact­ly what they are look­ing for and with­out agree­ing in advance how they’ll look for it.

The full arti­cle Nat­ur­al Selec­tion Acts On The Quan­tum world is just plain cool (and acces­si­ble to non-sci­en­tists).