Reality Is Very Weird and You Need to Be Prepared for That
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Reality Is Very Weird and You Need to Be Prepared for That
Bohr believed that whenever we encountered a paradox, it was a sign that we were hitting on something true and real. This was because of the fundamental disconnect between reality and the mind—a disjuncture that the bizarre quantum world made abundantly clear:
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Applying universal logic gives our experiences a certain weight and our lives a certain order. I assume this is why we’re so drawn to recasting our life stories into tidy narratives and lessons to be shared with others. But in doing this we risk underestimating chaos, nuance, idiosyncrasy, and the occasional dose of self-delusion.
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As usual, we don't really have a problem with the fictional; we have a problem with the real. Reality is unsatisfying and scary; fiction about reality fixes those problems. It's much easier for us to navigate reality if we can reduce it to simple, digestible patterns: if our public institutions and our fellow human beings can be flattened into imme
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The world contained in this data does not operate according to the neat Newtonian rules of cause and effect but spirals into the baffling complexity of chaos theory, wherein everything is connected to everything else and even small changes have widespread repercussions. Or rather, this is the world that had always been there, lurking beyond our lim
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