Edward Frenkel
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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Because if you put a detector behind one of the slits and you say, I'm going to capture you, I'm going to find out which slit you went through, the pattern will change and it will look like they're particles.
So that's a very concrete realization of the idea that depending on how we set up an experiment, we will see different results.
And the problem is that our psyche, I feel, is lagging behind, in part because maybe our scientists are not doing such a great job.
So I take responsibility for this.
Why haven't I explained this properly?
I tried in a bunch of talks and so on, so now I'm talking about this again.
Our psyche kind of lagging behind.
Even though our science has progressed so much from the certainty and the determinism and all of that of the 19th century, our psyche is somehow still attached to those ideas.
The ideas of causality, of this naive determinism that the world is a bunch of billiard balls hitting each other, driven by some blind forces.
That's not at all like it is.
And we've known this for about 100 years at least.
You know?
It is a self-imposed limitation when we pretend that, for instance, that these naive ideas of 19th century physics are still valid and then start applying them to our lives and then also derive conclusions from it.
And for instance, people say, there is no free will.
Why?
Oh, because the world is just a bunch of billiard balls.
Where is the free will?
But excuse me, didn't you get the memo that this has been debunked thoroughly by the so-called quantum mechanics, which is our best scientific theory?
This is not some kind of bullshit or some kind of concoction of a madman.
This is our scientific theory, which has been confirmed by experiment.
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