The Nature of Reality

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Benjamin labitude and pia nadarajon discuss the nature of reality. Ben says we can never really be certain about reality, or that we affect reality by measuring it. In a way they're both saying that something outside of western science is what we need in order to entangle ourselves from this sort of knot that we've made o of our understanding of the world. This episode was sponsored by sales force.

In the 1920s, the scientist Werner Heisenberg came up with a wild idea that broke reality as Western science knew it. And it's still unsettling to think about. Benjamin Labatut's recent book, When We Cease to Understand the World, makes readers feel the aftershocks of the revelation, asking, "What's real?"

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