Jesse Michels

And I think the thing they should be asking for is like, let's collapse it.

You have, you know, like a wave function and quantum mechanics, like let's, let's, let's collapse the wave function.

You know, we have this probability distribution of the UFO thing.

Like if you're the current administration, look into David Grush's documents.

Yes.

So I think some of the most interesting and fruitful places to look for the next paradigm of science are...

going down the tree trunk of science and finding another branch.

And so, like, look to see where we went wrong.

And I think where we went wrong, in my personal opinion, is string theory and quantum gravity.

And it's this idea that we can't... So if you have two imperfect maps in the form of general relativity and quantum field theory, the idea that those are not...

abstractions and heuristics on reality and that their reality onto themselves, and we can force fit those maps, which are probably jagged and not one-to-one correlations with actual reality, is to me the epitome of human hubris.

And there's a great, actually, science writer and physicist, and she has a great YouTube channel, and her name's Sabina Hossenfelder.

And she wrote a great book called Lost in Math, and it's about how physics today is...

lost in these abstractions where we're talking about ridiculous numbers of dimensions, but then you can't do anything with it.

You can't do anything with string theory.

And so I think the two...

again, if you go down the tree trunk, find different branches, I think the two branches which are fruitful and interesting would be one, the creation of quantum mechanics and parapsychology and the idea that the mind might have something to do with wave function collapse, which all of the godfathers of quantum mechanics flirted with.

All of them did.

And so you can talk to like the modern kind of priestly citadel of quantum mechanics people like Sean Carroll,

And they'll say that's ridiculous, but it's literally an unfalsifiable claim on both sides.