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 · _intake0.957

   > audience. So if there's some problem with the quantum mechanics here, like for example, most people don't even know that oxygen is the only paramagnetic gas on the periodic table. Well, you need to

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2. 02 · yt0.796

   I wanted to begin with a, I don't know, a pet peeve of mine that I think you also agree with. When it comes to quantum mechanics, unlike any other theory that we discuss, people use this word "interpretation." The interpretations of quantum mechanics. And to me, as we'll get into it, the interpretations are not interpretations. They're different theories. And some of the interpretations don't even qualify as a complete theory. And so that just seems to be a complete misnomer in the way we describe these things. - I couldn't agree more. And I got this view from Bryce DeWitt, who was my supervis…

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3. 03 · yt0.786

   If it has quantum healing properties, they might. Okay. So my my my claim is we're on this weird agreement with our audience that we've given them a tiny number of ideas. We hit them over and over again and those people become pseudoconversent in quantum entanglement, quantum computing, quantum cryptography. They talk about quantum non-stop. They have no idea what the quantum is because we don't actually talk about the quantum. And as a result of this, when you try to say something else, people have a very strong sense of, well, we can't talk about that because people don't know uh what an ell…

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4. 04 · pubmed0.784

   We still lack any consensus about what one is actually talking about as one uses quantum mechanics. There is a gap between the abstract terms in which the theory is couched and the phenomena the theory enables each of us to account for so well. Because it has no practical consequences for how we each use quantum mechanics to deal with physical problems, this cognitive dissonance has managed to coexist with the quantum theory from the very beginning. The absence of conceptual clarity for almost a century suggests that the problem might lie in some implicit misconceptions about the nature of sci…

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5. 05 · yt0.784

   A very good way of putting it. And the result is a sort of induced, what do I call it? Induced cringe, or something. The students of quantum mechanics are trained not to ask those questions. And if you're trained not to ask certain questions, that has an effect on your worldview. It has an effect on the culture in physics, because students think that they're the only one who worries about this. And in fact, they all worry about this. They're the ones that are studying physics in order to understand the world, always worry about this. And they learn this language of substituting ideas about abs…

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6. 06 · yt0.778

   And you say, we're going to take a poll,   we're going to add up, we're going to point in  different directions. And then whatever the sum   of the direction we're going to average out by the  number of people, and we'll go in that direction   at that speed. Well, the key point is, is that  everybody who's not in the cult is pointing in   some different direction, and that's randomly  going to average out to going in no direction   at all, except for the cult. And they're all going  in the same direction. So in Feynman …

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7. 07 · yt0.776

   So, for about ever since quantum mechanics uh was conceived, the physicists have been puzzled by the fact that in the act of measuring a quantum object, uh a quantum variable, um the mathematical structure, say as a wave function, collapses in an instant and yields a number, which is not there to begin with. It's not there before you did do the measurement. And this is obviously very mystifying. And physicists, as I say, have been uh trying for close to a century to resolve that puzzle. And uh it it seems to me, after more than a hundred years of failure, that they really can't do it on the ba…

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8. 08 · yt0.776

   When you, when you make a measurement, do these physical properties become defined? Yeah. Before you make the measurement, you can only speak of a superposition of different possibilities. A wave of probabilities, so to say, but not of a defined physical existence. Yeah. So if there is a cat in a box and, and there is an apparatus inside the box that breaks a vial of poison depending on whether a certain atom decays or not. And that, that decays, that is a quantum event. Yeah. It's not a deterministic event as far as I know. Random event. Yeah, yeah. Then random meaning we don't know how it un…

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9. 09 · yt0.775

   It's not somehow a magical. is not made of a magical classical substance that's has different physics to it. So why should I have to make this distinction? As I said, why isn't this just a regular physical interaction between two physical things? Now the the little piece of data I'll just mention is is Adam Becker wrote a nice book called What is Real? which was a popular book about Bell and about David Bow and about Hugh Everett and certain people who were running against this stream of mainstream physics. Uh he was very critical of Bor and Copenhogen in the book and he has a degree in cosmol…

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10. 10 · yt0.774

    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…

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