The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics (Robert Wright & John Horgan)

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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John's recent bout of fever-induced hallucinations ... Does math actually help you understand QM? ... What experiments in QM have and have not verified ... John: All interpretations of QM are bad ... What do we want from science? ... "An operating system for reality" ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.4	Hello, John.
0:10.3	Hey, Bob.
0:11.4	How you doing?
0:13.4	I'm doing pretty good.
0:16.5	How about you?
0:17.8	I never complain on my show about how I'm doing.
0:22.7	So there's almost no point in asking me.
0:25.1	You're not going to hear anything bad for me.
0:27.5	I save that for my family.
0:29.9	Good for you.
0:31.0	Okay.
0:32.5	There is this one weird thing that just happened to me.
0:36.2	Okay.
0:36.6	It's not, I'm not going to complain.
0:39.0	I'm just going to, going to, um, point it out because it was unusual.
0:46.5	So I, I, you're not going to judge it.
0:48.5	You're not going to judge this thing.
0:50.0	You're making no judgments.
0:51.3	It's not neither good nor bad, but you're going to tell us what it is.
0:54.0	Okay. It's just a weird thing that happened to me, and it actually was kind of a glitch in my summer plans when I wanted to be writing this book on quantum mechanics. But let me interject. That's what we're going to be talking about, is quantum physics, and I'm looking forward to this because at the moment I don't
1:11.5	understand quantum physics and you have assured me that by the end of a conversation with you
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