Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.956

   > controls but now I want to step on it a little further because I think you'll really enjoy this so for randomized control clinical trials to actually be the gold standard do you know what that means from a physics standpoint like I'm talking about a decentralized standpoint it means that cause and effect has to be real it can't be a loser an illusion and it turns out the only place that cause and effect can be real is in a Newtonian world where time is absolute

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/newton/004-controls-but-now-i-want-to-step-on-it-a-little-further-becau.md

2. 02 · blog0.768

   But it is not obvious how this verdict is borne out purely by considering Newton’s equations: singling out the forward-looking counterfactual as the correct one seems arbitrary. As John Earman argues, the exercise of trying to divine the truth value of such counterfactual assertions, even when it is agreed at the outset what the basic laws are, is an invitation to a contest of conflicting intuitions about cotenability of conditions and the closeness of possible worlds. (Earman 2011: 494) David Lewis proposes an answer to this concern, arguing that the time-asymmetry of counterfactuals is secur…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/causation-in-physics.md

3. 03 · yt0.747

   You can't actually  just figure out immediately how to jump ahead.   You are forced to live time as time actually  progresses, go through the steps one by one.   I think that's a sort of important distinction  between the computational way of thinking about   things and the mathematical one, where it's just  like there's going to be a formula for the result.  That's such a vital idea, computational  irreducibility. Again, just to reiterate what   you said, when we solve a physics problem we have  the answer, maybe it's …

   yt/yAJTctpzp5w-can-space-and-time-emerge-from-simple-rules-stephen-wolfram-/transcript.txt

4. 04 · yt0.742

   With certainty. Now, this is a criterion, I don't know what you call it, a a dictum I call it, by Einstein. Einstein was worried about this concept of quantum reality, I think. And he and lots of other people were worried about this. To what extent is the quantum state real? Is it a real thing? Or is it just a figment of imagination or useful tool of a our calculations? Is it real? Not that it's real in the sense of real numbers, cuz it's not. It's complex numbers, which is a nice sort of um iron irony. But take the spin case, that's a good one. Which way is it spinning? Like you know, not sur…

   yt/vC4HNcqTQXk-roger-penrose-on-mind-consciousness-closer-to-truth-chats/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.739

   U but yes, obviously I would follow exactly the procedure that you summarized the procedure that we teach our students. But I guess the particular way that you're framing the question, I agree does give me a little bit of pause. I I'll say just another word for you to think about in your spare time. The normal way we talk about it, a position measurement is an intervention from the outside at a moment. So we can pick that moment. Like if I were to flash suddenly flash lasers everywhere and look for a dot to show at that moment. But a screen just sits there. It it doesn't have a timer on it. We…

   yt/VbXEc9vpeIM-what-we-ve-gotten-wrong-about-quantum-physics-world-science-/transcript.txt

6. 06 · yt0.738

   That introduces a complete asymmetry, but it also tells you something quite important. It tells you that I can change the world. I can control the world. And this would be the cybernetic perspective. And what it means is if I'm in sync and I'm using in sync as a stand-in for mathematically what would be known as generalized synchronization or synchronization of chaos, which is a free energy minimizing solution to any interaction or exchange with the world. If I'm in sync with the world, that means on the inside, I have to have as many degrees of freedom as there are controllable aspects to tha…

   yt/e8R7KicFCSs-karl-friston-decodes-the-real-ooda-loop-active-inference-and/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.735

   So this is the idea that this collection of motions and that collection's emotions and which ones are activated are all there together and which one is activated is a is a conscious choice and that conscious choice as it is at a quantum level choice in these very specific cells that you get the coherent superposition of different actions. I see. It could be this action is under control or this one or this one and they're all there in quantum superposition. So the choice you make as to which one is controlled is a quantum choice. And presumably when when the waveform collapses that's when you b…

   yt/nok4GhijvAA-is-consciousness-related-to-quantum-physics-with-roger-penro/transcript.txt

8. 08 · blog0.735

   And the worry is that once we look at the truthmakers in the mental case, the threat of epiphenomenalism crops up again. Although the effect counterfactually depends on the mental property, this is only because the mental property depends on a physical property doing the real work. The mental property looks like a freeloader (Kim 1998, pp. 70–3, 2007; compare Crane 2008 on a similar issue). LePore and Loewer discuss a version of this worry. Condition (3), an objector might say, is too crude to test for causal relevance, for the counterfactual holds only because removing F from a also removes s…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/mental-causation.md

9. 09 · blog0.734

   This has the consequence that, for example, “strong centering” which holds for the Lewis/Stalnaker semantics, does not hold for interventionist counterfactuals. According to strong centering the actual world is more similar to itself than any other possible world. Thus if both \(p\) and \(q\) hold in the actual world, then the “counterfactual” (that is, subjunctive conditional) “if \(p\) were the case, \(q\) would be the case”, is automatically true, As an illustration of the difference this makes, suppose that \(X\) and \(Y\) obey the following intervention–supporting functional relation: If …

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/causation-and-manipulability.md

10. 10 · yt0.733

    You give me the quantum state of the universe right now. This is the equation that tells you what happens next. It is not teological. It is not moral. It does not care what you do. It does not judge you. There is no goal or purpose towards which it strives. There's no causes and effects in this equation. It's just a pattern just like 6 7 8 9 10. Now you might object a slightly more sophisticated version of the previous objection is okay you have equations but I don't believe that your equations are truly fundamental unless they can fit on a t-shirt. So I prove to you that that can happen. Once…

    yt/rqezWO5Yba8-sean-carrol-the-big-picture-on-the-origins-of-life-meaning-a/transcript.txt