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Complex Conceptions of Time with David Krakauer, Ted Chiang, David Wolpert, & James Gleick

COMPLEXITY

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What Happens When You Reformulate Quantum Mechanics?

David Frum: Ted's story of your life is classical action. It's not quantum action. And I wondered, Ted, if you had to rewrite that story based on the path integral. What happens, David, to Ted's narrative when you do quantum action? Quantum mechanics is time symmetric. You can reformulate quantum mechanics in a completely time symmetric way.

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