Physics Can't Solve the Measuring Problem: Wolfgang Smith

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If you want to support this podcast, please visit Jack’s Patreon @ https://patreon.com/AskingAnything Discord: https://discord.gg/4y9pYY6YrH Twitter https://twitter.com/AskingWithJack Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/AskingAnything 0:00 Welcome Wolfgang Smith and Brian Murphy 5:12 Wolfgang, do you have any thoughts about the topic of consciousness? 11:27 Jack interrupts Wolfgang asking what happened at age 14 that made him an opponent of the current Weltanschauung 14:56 Wolfgang briefly touches upon the relation between classical physics and quantum physics 16:04 Going deeper into why an atomized worldview is not only untenable, but mathematically impossible 24:41 Why horizontal causation cannot account for Complex Specified Information 28:03 The scientific worldview is ideology-driven according to Wolfgang 29:21 Brian asks Wolfgang to elaborate on where he picked up on Heisenberg and how he got to his resolution to the measurement problem 33:53 The ontological distinction between a physical and a corporeal entity, and how that relates to the measurement problem 39:07 Why Being cannot be explained in terms of sums of parts, and the difference between quantities and qualities 43:27 What Wolfgang would like to convey to university students 50:21 Measurement gives Being to particles—which otherwise would be mere potentiae—and the causality you need in order to measure a quantum system cannot take place in time 1:00:18 Where does vertical causality come from? 1:07:43 The tripartite cosmos: the aeviternal (subject to neither time nor space), the intermediary (subject to time, but not space), the corporeal (subject to both time and space) 1:14:29 Wolfgang goes into some depth discussing James’ Gibson paper claiming we see reality ‘as it is’, and why the binding-problem cannot be solved on the corporeal level 1:27:44 Why Wolfgang isn’t familiar with most contemporary thinkers 1:33:42 Why the concept of bifurcation as coined by Alfred Whitehead is ultimately untenable 1:41:35 If Heisenberg—who was the most enlightened, metaphysically—had contemplated non-bifurcation more deeply, he would’ve resolved the leading problems in physics 1:45:15 Audience question by Bad_Mofo: What does Dr. Smith think of Alexander Unzicker’s variable light speed theory (originally from Einstein)? 1:52:19 Audience statement by Couldbeme: Many of the comments Dr. Smith has made, and his attention to Plato, seems to align with ideas we hear from John Vervaeke 1:53:37 Afterwords. Thank you Wolfgang and Brian, and good night.