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#187 – Frank Wilczek: Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Principle of Complementarity
In your new book you describe the idea which is fascinating of complementarity. It's an attitude towards the world than it's encouraged by the facts about the world, he says. To answer different kinds of questions you have to analyze the system in different ways that are mutually incompatible but both valid and uninterpretable. He describes how this can be a useful hack for ideas that we don't fully understand or many ideas that you can take multiple perspectives and they're both true.
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