  The difference between proximal and distal stimuli is discussed and an
example of the significance of this difference to physics is pointed out in the
area of quantum teleportation. In particular, experimental evidence concerning
the relative status of the distal stimulus to the observer points toward the
relative nature of spatial orientation of objects. In quantum teleportation,
this result indicates that the amount of classical information that needs to be
transmitted to support the quantum transfer of information may be greater than
is expected when the distal stimulus is assumed, as it ordinarily is, to have
an absolute orientation in relation to the observer.
