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Panpsychism: Is Everything Conscious? - Dr Philip Goff, PhD

The Weekend University

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The Most Boring Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Pilot wave theory is the most boring interpretation of quantum mechanics. It says there's both a wave-like entity called the wave function and there are particles. The states of the former determine the states of the latter, so this wavy thing sort of pulls around the particles. So far, this is all like the many worlds interpretation of quantum Mechanics. But at least there you have the sexiness of bunching universes. Pilot wave theory, you don't even have that. This is a deterministic theory. And because there are no alive dead cats superpositions, there's no role for conscious observation in collapsing the wave function.

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