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Why You Are SO Not the Person You Used to Be & How to Face the Unknown

Something You Should Know

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Uncertainty Makes a Boring Life

I take great comfort in a very idiosyncratic principle from quantum physics, which is called the Uncertainty Principle. The more precisely you measure the velocity of a particle, the less precisely you can measure its position and vice versa. And what it says to me is that the universe itself, some fundamental building block level has some fundamental uncertainty in it. Otherwise, we could build a world with enough computing power and enough machines that everything gets predicted and deterministic. It would be so boring. We need uncertainty.

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