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What is more mysterious than consciousness?

Where does our subjective experience come from?

It's certainly a puzzle that has baffled philosophers for eons.

But wait, what about quantum mechanics? That's a big puzzle, too. Why can quantum objects

maintain a superposition, but classical objects, which are made from quantum objects, somehow cannot?

And what's the difference between a quantum and classical object?

Also a major source of philosophical confusion. But hold on a second, what about the conflicts

between quantum mechanics and gravity? How can we have two beautiful theories, both of which

have been stress tested to an extraordinary level, but which clash in their basic

description of the universe.

Can they ever be harmonized?

These three questions battle for supremacy in the world of philosophy and physics.

Each one has been attacked from many sides, the greatest minds in history struggling to

make concrete progress.

But what if we could solve not just one, not just two, but all three with one theory,

one idea that explains consciousness, quantum measurements, and harmonizes quantum mechanics

with gravity?

Today, we'll explore a controversial theory that claims to do just that and a little more.

Welcome to Daniel and Kelly's extraordinarily ambitious universe.

Thank you. Hello, I'm Kelly Weiner-Smith. I study parasites and space. And today we are talking about all of the topics that make Kelly's brain go out.

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