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The Consciousness Edition

Von Neumann's conclusion, reached not as a mystic but as the most rigorous mathematician of his century, was that the break must happen outside the physical. Consciousness is what collapses the wavefunction. Consciousness is what turns the possible into the real.

Benoit Pellevoizin
1w ago

Most objects we transport around the world tolerate their containers. They sit in them, press against them, get held by them. Even the most sensitive cargo, from organs to antiquities, vaccines to wild animals, exist in material continuity with the surrounding world. Antimatter is categorically other. It's not fragile in a way that patience and care can manage simply, because it's constitutively incompatible with everything that exists.

4w ago
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The Fata Morgana Edition

In reality, Fata Morgana can happen in cases of temperature inversion, where warmer air moves over a body of colder, denser air. These were exactly the conditions occurring on the day of our flight.

1mo ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Many-Worlds Edition

Willow is a chip that only works if many worlds are real. The chip isn't picking one outcome and working from there. It's letting the wavefunction evolve across all possible states at once, and the answer emerges from the interference of all those paths.

2mo ago

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

2mo ago

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