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#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Subjective Experience of the World From an Observer

Our best physical theories tell us that unambiguously in quantum mechanics. Our psyche is somehow still attached to those ideas the ideas of causality and this naive determinism, he says. A lot of people are not aware of it through no fault of their own because they were never properly taught about free will as if it had never happened. I can revel in the intricacies of these interactions but completely ignore what this has for my own life you know because it's kind of scary  I guess i don't know how there's so many ways to describe this.

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