Tag: Quantum Mechanics | Page 3

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podcast

Enrique Blair and Robert J. Marks
Date
January 16, 2020

Tagged
double-slit experiment, Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat, wave function}

Shocked by Schrödinger’s Cat

_{Enrique Blair and Robert J. Marks
January 16, 2020

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What is quantum mechanics? Well, weird. Very weird. The great quantum mechanics pioneer Niels Bohr said: “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.” How did the study of quantum mechanics come to be? Robert J. Marks discusses quantum mechanics with Dr. Enrique Blair. Show Notes 00:41 | Introducing Dr. Enrique Blair, a professor of electrical Read More ›

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post

News
Date
October 29, 2019

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Adam Frank, Featured, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Physics}

Astrophysicist: Materialism Is on Shaky Ground

_{Adam Frank ponders the fact that materialism entirely fails to explain consciousness} _{News
October 29, 2019

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Frank’s computational research group has developed advanced supercomputer tools to study how stars form and die. So he would incline to a materialist view, surely? But no, he says, quantum physics blew all that away. And some neuroscientists just haven’t caught up.

Why Do Atheists Still Claim Free Will Can’t Exist?

_{Sam Harris reduces everything to physics but then ignores quantum non-determinism} _{Eric Holloway
August 12, 2019

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Philosophy of Mind}

A reader, listening to his podcast with computer scientist Judea Pearl, asks how he can be so sure everything is determined by physical forces. How indeed?