Edward Frenkel
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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So in that sense, even if these probabilities exist, they are subjective.
Some people immediately see it this way, some people immediately see it that way.
And I think that nobody knows, not psychologists, not neuroscientists, not philosophers, what to make of it.
The best answer, of course, as a scientific mind, even though I say, no, don't look for interpretation, leave some place for mysticism or mystery, right?
I say that.
But of course, I want a theory.
I want an explanation.
So the best explanation I find is from Niels Bohr's complementarity principle.
So it is like particle and wave, that there are different ways to look at it.
And when you look at it in a particular way, another side will be obscured.
Think about it like the other side of the moon.
So we are observing the moon from one side, and then we don't see the other side.
There is a complementary perspective where we see the other side, but not the side we normally see.
But the moon is the same.
It's still there.
It's our limitations of being able to grasp the whole.
That's complementarity.
And we know that from quantum mechanics that our physical reality is like that.
rather than being certain, rather than being one way or another.
They have biases.
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