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Philosopher of physics David Wallace guides us the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the mind-bending claims it makes about our reality.
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Yes. But many have inserted the missing verb into your failed attempt at sarcasm. Go back to school.
Take a deep breath
large hadron collider bit made me laugh XD
I wonder if hes putting it on=P
I love this video. how sane it all sounds!
I feel like an asshole…but so did I !
It's insanity in a shell of sane sound.
What about the observer ?
Science is by definition unable to explain what the human conciousness is made of, why we are self-aware.
If we are inside a matrix, would we expect to be able to understand it from an outside and absolute point of view ?
"We know OUR consciousness arises from our brain"
You seem to have a very limited understanding of what I am talking about here. For further reading you can read the "philosophical zombie" page on Wikipedia.
What I am talking about is the subject of many movies, such as "the prestige", and all great scientists until Einstein have had this kind of question.
If your conciousness was a physical phenomenon inside your brain, you would be a philosophical zombie.
MIND BLOWN! Slightly confusing, but interesting. It showed me how much we have to learn about quantum mechanics.
Your argumentation here is pretty poor and distasteful. I don't necessarily agree with either you or jb, but you've rendered a brazenly monstrous straw man. 1. jb never claimed that consciousness is something magical. 2. jb never claimed that consciousness doesn't arise from the brain, just that it is a distinct kind of phenomenon. 3. jb never claimed that the mind/brain isn't fragile. You're arguing against claims jb never made.
well i think their must be 9 multiverses.. everyone knows cats have 9 lives
This…. This actually makes sense…
The Many Worlds theory demonstrates how choice is built into the universe.
If this is true there should be a "universe" where it always rained at night and never during the day. If multiverse theory is correct maybe we should look in our world for any unexplainable coincidence. Unexplainable coincidences can be a piece of evidence to multiverses… yes?
The way this guy explained how particles are both points and waves at the same time was just painful to endure… I'm sorry but, did ANYONE in the audience understand?
Perhaps. Our brains aren't wired to see certain things, like any dimension past the 3rd.
I wouldn't discourage anybody from investigating weird phenomena. Perhaps ghosts are people from parallel universes? Who knows.
So everyone i interact with splits into different reality streams as well? Say im in the room with a dead cat with a man named Mike. This means there is a room with an alive cat with MIke and another version of me. Ill never see that Mike again because he will be continuing his reality with that version of myself, while i continue my reality with this version of him. Anyway my brain just exploded.
Pew Pew… Mind blown 🙂
Deism is more plausible than atheism! A quantum vacuum and multiverse is total speculation! Its not science! Its faith based!
Awesome! Wrote a book based on this called: "Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams." Applies the theory both metaphorically and literally as a guide to life transformation. Answering the question, how does one get their life on the path most desired? What if you want to accomplish a goal in the left hand beam but are living in the right hand beam? How do you make that jump? My book looks to bridge the gap between physics and metaphysics, so readers should consider this. Thanks! 🙂
Check out the Long Earth Wiki:
http://thelongearth.wikia.com/wiki/The_long_Earth_Wiki
David Wallace is such a smart guy
so the whole world shifted to a new earth… because of a blue and black dress; [what color is this dress]?
so the hadron CERN Super-collider was actually DEEP THOUGHT?
OK but is the potatoe both alive and dead in the box at the same LONGED EARTH?
I CANT BELIEVE THIS QUITE INTELLIGENT MAN JUST QUOTED THE THEORY THAT THE EARTH IS SPINNING AND THAT AT ONE THOUSAND MILES PER HOUR ACCORDING TO THE THEORY AND THEN TELLING US INTUITION IS WRONG, IE THE WAY SOMETHING LOOKS IS WRONG WHILE TALKING ABOUT OBSERVING AND LOOKING AT PHOTONS IN HALF WHICH CAN ONLY BE IN ONE DETECTIVE MOMENT AT THE SAME TIME….THE EARTH IS NOT MOVING SPINNING AND THE SUN IS TINY AND CLOSE TO US , NO TWO WAYS ABOUT IT , WATER IS NOT CURVING AROUND A BALL SHAPE WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MEASURE ANYWAY BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE A TELESCOPE THAT CAN JUMP OVER A BULGING CURVING SHAPE TO CONFIRM THE EARTH IS A BALL, NO PROOF ,
I'm gonna start using quantum number generators to make some life decisions from now on… at least I can ensure one of my branches made the right decision
David Wallace, a gift to mankind.
WHY are those other guys there ? ..they didn't say anything.
No, your decision is caused by quantum randomness. At a fundamental level the particles in a stone interact the same way as those in a human being. There are no different fundamental rules. The systems can be different but the laws are the same. The evolution of any system is dictated by what happens at a fundamental level. If the universe is deterministic you can in principle even predict the future perfectly. If not, still our decision is given by the fundamental laws. Just because you make consciousness decisions doesn't mean the system doesn't follow these laws anymore.
There are nine Worlds because a Cat has nine lives.
The "Correspondence Principle" is a "way of looking at" phenomena that have no scale.., because it's a product of the Quantum Fields Mechanism, zero-infinity range-interval of constant-dynamic temporal superposition quantization-modulation into quanta of Timespace duration-history pulses. It's a phase-state Multiverse.
Or, because the eternal-now singularity is a unique event, the 1-0D Quantum Origin of the dimensions, synchronization of superimposed modules is Quantum Chemistry and Physics of all phenomena, and in particular, fields of mass, energy, light and sound, bound in a unique phase-state called Multiverse, because it's modulated quantum information.., familiar to us as matter, sound and light.
The results of the double slit effect are due to the intergration of the unique (multi-phase) universal phase-state pulse combinations, in the same sequence of dimensional identification as 3D+T.
All of which arrangement of information can be deduced from an analysis of analog-clockwork pulse-duration integration of the Universal Singularity Wave-package. (Or Babbage's Computational Device etc)
The "One Electron theory" is another "way of looking" at the multiphased superposition and interference constants of Quantum Computation.., Clockwork.
The labels or signs posted over quantization are the source of "magical thinking" confusion.
None of this should get in the way of good "Narrativium" compositions, art and culture are in the zone of "trial and error", evolution of adaptive existence.
Intuition:- "The more you learn the less you know", which is motivation enough to justify Education and Philosophical orientation to sustainable continuity of existence.
WARNING: This video gets pretty trippy around the 22 minute mark. Have a bucket or something handy, so that when your brains leak out your ear, you'll have something to catch them in.
What is not brought into the equation is Consciousness. You are not in the world; the world is in you.
I could listen to David for hours on end. Such a cool, nerdy, smart and eloquent guy.