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Does attitude/consciousness determine outcomes? Sometimes. Conscious beings can control certain outcomes, such as what one has for breakfast. For example, once you place a vase in a specific location, the fact that the vase is in that location is an outcome of your conscious intent and subsequent conscious behavior to fulfill that intent.
Reality is everything that is, including both physical reality and consciousness. Everything is what it is and acts according to its nature. Consciousness does not change that. Consciousness is awareness of reality. You choose to act in accordance with what you are and what you are capable of by your nature, which does not include overriding the law of causality. See Ayn Rand's "The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made".
It's not either or it's all three are required as my contribution. Sarting in the middle with the Second Law of Objectivism facts without any use are just colelctions of understanding the nature of things waiting to be used. Attitude speaks to the Third Law of Objectivism and Consciousness to the First Law.
Dont have to mention anything not objective Apollo sliced and diced subjectivism already.
You can believe from the bottom of your heart that the law of gravity is only a mental construct, but if you jump off the top of a 10 story building you will end up a hamburger.
That means that existence is independent of human thought.
In the context of speaking of these constituents of reality as potentially knowable by our consciousness, we call specific sets of entities, actions, relationships, etc, "facts."
Consciousness can help shape outcomes of those entities or processes that it has specific causal connections with. (Like the movement of your arm and the things that movement affects.) But consciousness can't make just anything happen by thinking, wishing or hoping.
However, much of the culture today is in denial of reality.
A=A
Mysticism/Magic can't be measured or always repeated.