I'm a little dense, but I read the above several times, and I'm imagining the coffee I'm drinking suddenly deciding it would rather be battery acid. Maybe if the coffee is concious, it also has a sense of humor.

What if the way a hundred different people view a thing were all true, and the thing is a hundred different things. This is certainly true of concepts, if not objects. ("What is folk music?") And what fundamental aspects would viewed the same by everyone so the thing remains the thing...

Isn't it a theory of quantum mechanics that the way a particle behaves can be affected by someone observing it?