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Does existence only count if there is an observer to observe it? I don't understand this notion.
I think about this every time I drive long distances, passing through forest.
"That tree over there is just standing there, all hours of every day, winter and summer, just waiting. Then I drive by it for 2 seconds. Then it still stands there, waiting."
Similarly I think of rocks rotating in silence around planets, stars. Or orphan rocks around galaxies, in darkness, and also silence. They're just there, for millions of millennia. Without anyone's knowledge. But surely they exist.