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The Quantum Theory of Consciousness That’s Terrifying Scientists
A philosophy-of-physics video that uses quantum mechanics and the many-worlds interpretation to destabilize the concept of a continuous, fixed self — and arrives somewhere genuinely unsettling.
- In every moment, an identical version of you suddenly diverges into a new separate reality — but which one is you? Is it always the same you? Is it never the same you? What are you?
- “We continue to call this assemblage us, me, I. And we perceive and feel it as if it were fixed and continual. But it isn't at all obvious if it actually is.”
- “Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?”
- Every quantum transition taking place on every star in every galaxy and every remote corner of the universe is splitting our local world on Earth into myriads of copies.
- Quantum immortality forces us to realize not only the underlying uncertainty of everything we are made of, but also the uncertainties of who and what we are philosophically — even if something like you might continue on forever.