• MajorSauce@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    The hubris in thinking that our consciousness has something transcending classic physics or is somehow more special than other animals’…

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      5 months ago

      It’s not hubris, it’s neediness. Some people have a desperate need to be speshul, not just matter, not just a process, but something magical and ineffable and inherently intractable. They want their non-overlapping magisteria back, and they use ‘quantum’ as a little reservation it can hide on.