A Conscious Universe, Bats Working at Libraries, and Coffee with Co-Workers

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you learn something new in just a few minutes:

Is the Universe Conscious of Itself?
These Baroque Portuguese Libraries Employ Bats for a Very Important Purpose
Coffee Could Help You Tolerate the People You Work With
Why You Should Leave Your Phone Out of the Bedroom

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.2	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.2	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.2	Today you'll learn why Portuguese libraries employ bats, how coffee might help you tolerate
0:12.0	your coworkers, and a theory that the universe is conscious of itself
0:16.2	Plus we'll get an update on Ashley's phone habits. Let's satisfy some curiosity
0:20.7	Cody like what if the universe is a giant brain and we're all just neurons in it?
0:27.0	Wow, I feel like I'm back in college.
0:29.1	Well, scientists think that that actually might be a thing.
0:32.0	To explain, we're going to have to
0:33.4	wait into some quantum physics. You ready? I've never been more ready. Okay, so
0:37.8	quantum mechanics is basically the physics of the very, very smallest particles in
0:42.4	the universe, and they particles in the universe.
0:43.4	And they don't behave like the stuff you see every day.
0:46.1	They can actually exist in many different states at once.
0:50.0	And some theories say that they don't choose a final state until you measure them or observe them.
0:55.0	It's kind of like if you dealt a playing card face down and it existed as all 52 cards at once until you turned it over.
1:02.0	At that point, the card would choose to be
1:04.1	say the Queen of Hearts just because you're observing it. So there's a wild theory
1:08.7	that maybe those tiny particles are conscious and their choices aren't just a metaphor. This theory is called
1:15.3	panpsychism and it says that there's some sort of proto-consciousness that
1:19.6	permeates the universe. It wouldn't be a brain or a mind like ours, but more like a set of
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