Inventor Andrew Knight explains how the laws of physics may answer some of the hardest problems in the philosophy of science, such as the nature of consciousness, whether humans possess free will, and what causes the arrow of time.
Welcome to my blog! I am the author of the world's FIRST paper (explained here on my YouTube channel ) to appear in the academic lite...
Further to my blog post about finally getting published, my first physics publication posted a couple of days ago in the Foundations of Physics regarding a common misperception in quantum mechanics.
Also, I made the following presentation ("Refuting Algorithmic Consciousness: Why Mind Uploading and Conscious Computers are Impossible") in a concurrent session at the 2020 Science of Consciousness conference on Tuesday.
In this post, I pointed out that even though the phrase "copy the brain" occurs all over the Internet, my post might be the first in history to state that it is "impossible to copy the brain," an illuminating observation about the pervasive assumption that brains can be copied.
Obviously, I’m not the first person to doubt that they are possible, but the fact that the above phrases yield nothing (until you remove "not possible" or "impossible," yielding thousands of results) should tell us something. It is practically established doctrine in the philosophy and foundations of physics that the Schrodinger’s Cat and Wigner’s Friend thought experiments, along with the ability to measure a macroscopic system in quantum superposition, are possible in principle.
The thing is – they’re not.
Here is my newest YouTube video, entitled “Why Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions are Impossible in Principle.” The concepts are elaborated in preprints here and here, with a more comprehensive explanation of (my current understanding of) quantum mechanics in this blog post.
A brief (13-minute) version of the above video can be found here: