um here's what I wanted to ask you that
build up to all this here's where it is
and this is going to take you out of
your comfort zone a little bit but boy I
was sitting here thinking about all of
this the pontem story you just hold and
then I thought about twins you know
people who were twins you know I've been
off on this for years now this
consciousness kick I think I think
professor consciousness maybe may have a
quantum link i know that's a terrible
jump for you but i have this feeling and
my example would be twins sometimes
you've got a twin on one side of the
world feeling pain when the other side
of the you know the clint on the other
side of the world has something awful
happened to it and I've just got this
funny feeling there's a quantum
connection what say you well you know
some of the greatest minds of quantum
mechanics like EG and victor winner of
the Nobel Prize he helped to build the
atomic bomb he believed that the quantum
theory proved that there has to be a
cosmic consciousness and the reason for
that is as follows when you do this
measurement you don't know whether an
object is spin up or spin down till you
look at it right so the observation
process in some sense determines its
state and this means that this
observation requires consciousness only
conscious beings can make measurements
we think right this means that
consciousness is required to make an
observation and this goes back to what
it's called the shoulder is your cat
problem where if we put a cat in a box
and I attach a gun to the cat so the gun
can kill the cat is a cat dead or alive
well before you open the box we
physicists have to add the wave function
of a dead cat to the wave function of a
live cat the cat is either dead nor
alive when you open the box then you say
aha the cat is alive so this means that
observation that is opening the box in
some sense determined that the cat was
alive I don't I I'd follow everything up
to the point where you said it
determined
right in other words we don't know
whether the cat is dead or alive until
you open the box and make an observation
before that in never-never land it's in
a mixture of two states right behind
your how did your observation how did
your observation determine which it was
well the state can either be alive or
dead before you open the box when you
open the box looks so so called wave
function collapses so it then
degenerates into a live cat or a dead
cat before it as a choice once you open
the box is either dead or alive so the
observation process determined the fact
that it exists in a certain state so
even though this sounds bizarre this is
the way electrons work and that's what
we have laser beams laser beams are
there a consequence of this you know why
our laser beam so bizarre and so strange
it's precisely because the laser beam is
a quantum effect alright but I I hate
this but I still don't get how am i
opening the box and observing that the
cat was alive he helped the can't be
alive it gives a fifty-fifty pop it
could have been dead to write and God
that's right it could have it did as
well but the fact that when you open the
box you know no the state of the cat
okay that means that observation
collapse the wave so the wave is no
longer oscillating between being dead
and alive the way I have to choose the
way that is to choose whether the cat is
dead or alive well that would be the way
of choosing on me yeah we don't choose
ahead of time the fact that I'm in July
we don't choose is the observation
process that that chooses it so by
opening the box you now know the cat is
let's say alive we can't choose that
it's alive it's a 50-50 either live or
okay no I get it right and this works
for electrons and it works for
transistors and that's why your laptop
works you know why is it the transistors
and laptops are so miraculous and do so
many crazy things it's precisely because
of this effect if quantum mechanics were
turned off
lasers would no longer work the
satellites we have in outer space
wouldn't work the internet would
collapse all modern electronics the
grind to a halt if the quantum
mechanical interpretation is turned off
so we live the quantum theory every
single second your online Wow okay all
right let's change gears I'm sorry I
just had to ask about that and there's
one one other thing
