Tim Maudlin
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4,767 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Tim Maudlin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you know, the the connection there ought to be somewhat comprehensible.
Got it.
All right, good.
So as we know, Einstein's worry was non-locality.
The pilot wave theory is really obviously plainly non-local.
Because it's deterministic.
It will give you
truth values for counterfactual claims because in a deterministic theory, if you tell me enough about any situation, the theory will tell me what would happen in that situation, right?
In an indeterministic theory, it might say, I don't know, different things might happen.
But in a deterministic theory, it'll say, well, if that had been, you know, two pounds heavier, the thing would have broken.
And that's a, you know, so you can evaluate all these counterfactuals.
What would have happened if changed the situation?
What would the result be?
So because it's that, you can do all that.
And it's just clear it's a, it's, it's an absolutely uh non-local theory.
In an EPR spin kind of case, there are situations where.
As things were, Bob got his result, his particle went up.
But the theory said if Alice had simply oriented her magnet in a different direction,
Bob's particle would have gone down.
Or if Alice had delayed, if she'd gone on a coffee break and not done her experiment at the time she did, but a little later, Bob's particle would have gone down.
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