WEBVTT 00:00:03.521 --> 00:00:08.042 Athenes Theory Of Everything 00:00:08.042 --> 00:00:12.263 The following documentory presents new developments in Neuroscience 00:00:12.263 --> 00:00:18.092 and a solution to the many current unsolved problems in physics. 00:00:18.092 --> 00:00:21.391 While it keeps clear of metaphysical correlations 00:00:21.391 --> 00:00:24.920 and is solely focused on scientificaly verifiable data, 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:33.227 it also has philosophical reprecassions pertaining to life, death and the origin of the universe. 00:00:33.227 --> 00:00:36.763 Due to it’s many layers and density in presentation, 00:00:36.763 --> 00:00:41.212 it may require multiple viewings to fully comprehend its implications, 00:00:41.212 --> 00:00:43.789 even though considerable effort has been made, 00:00:43.789 --> 00:00:48.689 to simplify the complex scientific concepts that are discussed. 00:00:48.689 --> 00:00:51.375 Además, me gustaría agradecer al autor 00:00:51.375 --> 00:00:54.547 por permitirme seguir e informar sobre su trabajo 00:00:54.547 --> 00:00:57.560 como él quería permanecer dedicado a su investigación 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:02.868 y evitando implicarse en su cobertura mediática. 00:01:08.083 --> 00:01:11.172 written & researched by Athene 00:01:11.172 --> 00:01:14.048 edited & narrated by Reese015 (subtitulado por Diego V) 00:01:14.048 --> 00:01:16.270 music by Professor Kliq 00:01:19.162 --> 00:01:21.185 Cápitulo 1 00:01:21.185 --> 00:01:24.211 Dios está en las neuronas 00:01:30.181 --> 00:01:36.431 El cerebro humano es una red de aproximadamente cien mil millones de neuronas. 00:01:36.431 --> 00:01:39.723 Diferentes experiencias crean diferentes conexiones neuronales 00:01:39.723 --> 00:01:42.565 que produce diferentes emociones 00:01:42.565 --> 00:01:45.358 Y dependiendo de cuales neuronas son estimuladas 00:01:45.358 --> 00:01:48.369 ciertas conexiones se hacen más fuertes y más eficientes 00:01:48.369 --> 00:01:51.258 mientras que otras pueden vuelven más débiles. 00:01:51.258 --> 00:01:53.657 Esto es lo que se llama plasticidad neural. 00:01:53.657 --> 00:01:55.999 Alguien que entrena para ser un músico 00:01:55.999 --> 00:01:58.308 will create stronger neural connections that link 00:01:58.308 --> 00:02:03.465 the two hemispheres of the brain in order to be musically creative. 00:02:03.465 --> 00:02:08.836 Virtually any sort of talent or skill can be created through training. 00:02:08.836 --> 00:02:11.830 Rudiger Gamm, who was a self-admitted ’hopeless student’, 00:02:11.830 --> 00:02:15.616 used to fail at basic maths and went on to train his abilities 00:02:15.616 --> 00:02:18.297 and became a famous ’human calculator’ 00:02:18.297 --> 00:02:22.815 capable of performing extremely complex mathematics. 00:02:23.814 --> 00:02:27.452 Rationality and emotional resilience work the same way. 00:02:27.452 --> 00:02:31.310 These are neural connections that can be strengthened. 00:02:31.310 --> 00:02:38.087 Whatever you are doing at any time, you are physically modifying your brain to become better at it. 00:02:38.087 --> 00:02:41.929 Since this is such a foundational mechanism of the brain, 00:02:41.929 --> 00:02:46.893 being self-aware can greatly enrich our life experience. 00:02:51.031 --> 00:02:56.255 Part 1: Social Neuroscience 00:02:58.102 --> 00:03:02.126 Specific neurons and neurotransmitters, such as norepinephrine, 00:03:02.126 --> 00:03:09.664 trigger a defensive state when we feel that our thoughts have to be protected from the influence of others. 00:03:09.664 --> 00:03:13.255 If we are then confronted with with differences in opinion, 00:03:13.255 --> 00:03:16.963 the chemicals that are released in the brain are the same ones 00:03:16.963 --> 00:03:21.920 that try to ensure our survival in dangerous situations. 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:24.409 In this defensive state, 00:03:24.409 --> 00:03:29.034 the more primitive part of the brain interferes with rational thinking 00:03:29.034 --> 00:03:33.040 and the limbic system can knock out most of our working memory, 00:03:33.040 --> 00:03:36.402 physically causing ’narrow-mindedness’. 00:03:36.402 --> 00:03:41.068 We see this in the politics of fear, in the strategy of poker players 00:03:41.068 --> 00:03:45.763 or simply when someone is stubborn in a discussion. 00:03:45.763 --> 00:03:48.405 No matter how valuable an idea is, 00:03:48.405 --> 00:03:53.545 the brain has trouble processing it when it is in such a state. 00:03:53.545 --> 00:03:57.543 On a neural level, it reacts as if we’re being threatened, 00:03:57.543 --> 00:04:00.993 even if this threat come from harmless opinions or facts 00:04:00.993 --> 00:04:06.759 that we may otherwise find helpful and could rationally agree with. 00:04:18.049 --> 00:04:22.180 But when we express ourselves and our views are appreciated, 00:04:22.180 --> 00:04:25.510 these ’defence chemicals’ decrease in the brain 00:04:25.510 --> 00:04:29.581 and dopamine neurotransmission activates the reward neurons, 00:04:29.581 --> 00:04:33.901 making us feel empowered and increasing our self-esteem. 00:04:33.901 --> 00:04:38.114 Our beliefs have a profound impact on our body chemistry, 00:04:38.114 --> 00:04:41.840 this is why placebos can be so effective. 00:04:41.840 --> 00:04:47.366 Self-esteem or self-belief is closely linked to the neurotransmitter serotonin. 00:04:47.366 --> 00:04:50.368 When the lack of it takes on severe proportions, 00:04:50.368 --> 00:04:56.720 it often leads to depression, self-destructive behavior or even suicide. 00:04:57.428 --> 00:05:02.655 Social validation increases the levels of dopamin and serotonin in the brain 00:05:02.655 --> 00:05:10.306 and allows us to let go of emotional fixations and become self-aware more easily. 00:05:17.828 --> 00:05:21.118 Part 2 00:05:21.118 --> 00:05:24.188 Part 2: Mirror Neurons & Consciousness 00:05:25.066 --> 00:05:29.842 Social psychology often looks at the basic human need to fit in 00:05:29.842 --> 00:05:34.421 and calls this the normative social influence. 00:05:34.421 --> 00:05:41.451 When we grow up our moral and ethical compass is almost entirely forged by our environment. 00:05:41.451 --> 00:05:48.765 So our actions are often a result of the validation we get from society. 00:05:48.765 --> 00:05:50.764 But new developments in neuro-science 00:05:50.764 --> 00:05:57.094 are giving us a better understanding of culture and identity. 00:05:57.094 --> 00:06:03.146 Recent neurological research has confirmed the existance of empathetic mirror neurons. 00:06:03.146 --> 00:06:08.449 When we experience an emotion or perform an action, specific neurons fire. 00:06:08.449 --> 00:06:13.275 But when we observe someone else performing this action, or when we imagine it, 00:06:13.275 --> 00:06:20.064 many of the same neurons will fire again, as if we were performing the action ourselves. 00:06:20.064 --> 00:06:26.661 These empathy neurons connect us to other people allowing us to feel what others feel. 00:06:26.661 --> 00:06:30.269 And since these neurons respond to our imagination, 00:06:30.269 --> 00:06:35.417 we can experience emotional feedback as if it came from someone else. 00:06:35.417 --> 00:06:40.161 This system is what allows us to self-reflect. 00:06:41.869 --> 00:06:45.813 The mirror neuron does not know the difference between it and others 00:06:45.813 --> 00:06:52.077 and is the reason why we are so dependant on social validation and why we want to fit in. 00:06:52.077 --> 00:06:59.753 We are in a constant duality between how we see ourselves and how others see us. 00:06:59.753 --> 00:07:04.415 This can result int confusion in terms of identity and self-esteem. 00:07:04.415 --> 00:07:07.975 And brain scans show that we experience these negative emotions 00:07:07.975 --> 00:07:11.441 even before we are aware of them. 00:07:13.566 --> 00:07:18.125 But when we are self-aware, we can alter misplaced emotions, 00:07:18.125 --> 00:07:21.604 because we control the thoughts that cause them. 00:07:21.604 --> 00:07:27.130 This is a neural chemical consequence of how memories become labile when retrieved 00:07:27.130 --> 00:07:31.379 and how they are restored through protein synthesis. 00:07:31.379 --> 00:07:36.067 Self-observing profoundly changes the way our brain works. 00:07:36.067 --> 00:07:39.436 It activates the self-regulating neo-cortical regions 00:07:39.436 --> 00:07:44.576 which give us an incredible amount of control over our feelings. 00:07:44.576 --> 00:07:50.927 Every time we do this, our rationality and emotional resilience are strenghened. 00:07:50.927 --> 00:07:56.766 When we are not being self-aware, most of our thoughts and actions are impulsive 00:07:56.766 --> 00:08:03.847 and the idea that we are randomly reacting and not making concious choices is instinctively frustrating. 00:08:03.847 --> 00:08:07.946 The brain resolves this by creating explanations for our behavior 00:08:07.946 --> 00:08:12.897 and physically rewriting it into our memories, through memory reconsolidation 00:08:12.897 --> 00:08:17.087 making us believe, that we were in control of our actions. 00:08:17.087 --> 00:08:20.525 This is also called backward-rationalization 00:08:20.525 --> 00:08:27.648 and it can leave most of our negative emotions unresolved and ready to be triggered at any time. 00:08:27.648 --> 00:08:31.301 They become a constant fuel to our confusion as our brain 00:08:31.301 --> 00:08:37.125 will keep trying to justify why we behaved irrationally. 00:08:40.511 --> 00:08:44.916 All this complex and almost schizophrenic subconscious behaviour 00:08:44.916 --> 00:08:50.092 is the result of a vastly parallel distributed system in our brain. 00:08:50.092 --> 00:08:53.783 There is no specific center of consciousness. 00:08:53.783 --> 00:08:59.782 The appearance of a unity is in fact each of these separate circuits being enabled and being expressed 00:08:59.782 --> 00:09:02.755 at one particular moment in time. 00:09:02.755 --> 00:09:07.581 Our experiences are constantly changing our neural connections, 00:09:07.581 --> 00:09:12.175 physically altering the parallel system that is our consciousness. 00:09:12.175 --> 00:09:18.204 Direct modifications to this can have surreal consequences that bring into question 00:09:18.204 --> 00:09:22.044 what and where consciousness really is. 00:09:23.737 --> 00:09:28.315 If your left cerebral hemisphere were to be disconnected form the right, 00:09:28.315 --> 00:09:31.239 as is the case in split-brain patients, 00:09:31.239 --> 00:09:35.236 you would normally still be able to talk and think from the left hemisphere, 00:09:35.236 --> 00:09:40.360 while your right hemisphere would have very limited cognitive capacities. 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:43.140 Your left brain will not miss the right part, 00:09:43.140 --> 00:09:47.352 even though this profoundly changes your perception. 00:09:47.352 --> 00:09:53.888 One consequence of this is that you can no longer describe the right half of someones face. 00:09:53.888 --> 00:09:58.063 But you will never mention it, you will never see it as a problem, 00:09:58.063 --> 00:10:02.953 or even realise that something has changed. 00:10:02.953 --> 00:10:06.913 Since this affects more than just your perception of the real world, 00:10:06.913 --> 00:10:11.585 and also applies to your mental images, it is not just a sensory-problem, 00:10:11.585 --> 00:10:17.296 but a fundamental change in your consciousness. 00:10:25.215 --> 00:10:28.940 Part 3 00:10:28.940 --> 00:10:32.268 Part 3: God Is In The Neurons 00:10:32.268 --> 00:10:34.611 Each neuron has a voltage 00:10:34.611 --> 00:10:38.942 which can change when ions flow in or out of the cell. 00:10:38.942 --> 00:10:42.019 Once a neuron voltage has reached a certain level, 00:10:42.019 --> 00:10:44.856 it will fire an electrical signal to other cells, 00:10:44.856 --> 00:10:47.293 which will repeat the process. 00:10:47.293 --> 00:10:50.569 When many neurons fire at the same time, we can measure 00:10:50.569 --> 00:10:54.302 these changes in the form of the wave. 00:10:54.302 --> 00:10:57.973 Brainwaves underpin almost everything going on in our minds, 00:10:57.973 --> 00:11:02.486 including memory attention and even intelligence. 00:11:02.486 --> 00:11:09.654 As they oscillate on different frequencies they get classified in bands such as alpha, beta and gamma. 00:11:09.654 --> 00:11:13.459 Each are associated with different task. 00:11:13.459 --> 00:11:17.731 Brainwaves allow braincells to tune in to the frequency corresponding 00:11:17.731 --> 00:11:21.537 to their particular task, while ignoring irrelevant signals, 00:11:21.537 --> 00:11:27.357 similar to how radio homes in different waves to pick up radio stations. 00:11:27.357 --> 00:11:30.825 The transfer of information between neurons becomes optimal 00:11:30.825 --> 00:11:33.556 when their activity is synchronized. 00:11:33.556 --> 00:11:37.773 This is the same reason why we experience cognitive dissonance, 00:11:37.773 --> 00:11:44.356 the frustration caused by simultaneously holding in contradictory ideas. 00:11:46.649 --> 00:11:53.760 Will is merely the drive to reduce dissonance between each of our neural circuits. 00:11:55.866 --> 00:11:58.683 Evolution can be seen as the same process, 00:11:58.683 --> 00:12:03.498 where nature tries to adapt, or 'resonate' with its environment. 00:12:03.498 --> 00:12:07.443 By doing so, it evolves to the point where it becomes self-aware 00:12:07.443 --> 00:12:11.437 and begin to ponder its own existence. 00:12:11.437 --> 00:12:14.507 When person faces a paradox or wanting purpose 00:12:14.507 --> 00:12:17.735 while thinking that human existence is meaningless, 00:12:17.735 --> 00:12:20.745 cognitive dissonance occurs. 00:12:20.745 --> 00:12:25.297 Throughout history, this has led many to reach for spiritual and religious guidance, 00:12:25.297 --> 00:12:36.229 challenging science, as it failed to give answers existential questions, such as: "Why or what am I?" 00:12:44.065 --> 00:12:46.818 Part 4 00:12:46.818 --> 00:12:49.843 Part 4: I am Athene 00:12:49.843 --> 00:12:59.269 "The mirror neuron does not know the difference between it and others". 00:13:06.656 --> 00:13:12.909 The left cerebral hemisphere is largely responsible for creating a coherent belief system, 00:13:12.909 --> 00:13:18.678 in order to maintain a sense of continuity towards our lives. 00:13:18.678 --> 00:13:23.879 New experiences get folded into the pre-existing belief system. 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:28.571 When they don't fit, they are simply denied. 00:13:28.571 --> 00:13:35.317 Counter-balancing this is the right cerebral hemisphere, which has the opposite tendency. 00:13:35.317 --> 00:13:38.933 Whereas the left hemisphere tries to preserve the model, 00:13:38.933 --> 00:13:43.932 the right hemisphere is constantly challenging the status quo. 00:13:43.932 --> 00:13:46.735 When the discrepant anomalies become too large, 00:13:46.735 --> 00:13:51.030 the right hemisphere forces a revision in our world view. 00:13:51.030 --> 00:13:54.153 However, when our beliefs are too strong, 00:13:54.153 --> 00:14:00.225 the right hemisphere may not succeed in overriding our denial. 00:14:03.841 --> 00:14:08.713 This can create a profound confusion when mirroring others. 00:14:08.713 --> 00:14:12.280 When the neural connections that physically define our belief system 00:14:12.280 --> 00:14:17.538 are not strongly developed or active, then our consciousness, the unity of all the separate 00:14:17.538 --> 00:14:24.660 active circuits at that moment, may consist mainly of activity relates to our mirror neurons. 00:14:24.660 --> 00:14:26.831 Just as when we experience hunger, 00:14:26.831 --> 00:14:34.125 our consciousness consists mostly of other neural interactions for consuming food. 00:14:34.125 --> 00:14:40.611 This is not the result of some core “self” giving commands to different cerebral areas. 00:14:40.611 --> 00:14:49.510 All the different parts of the brain become active and inactive and interact without a core. 00:14:49.510 --> 00:14:55.807 Just as the pixels on a screen can express themselves as a recognizible image when in unity, 00:14:55.807 --> 00:15:01.686 the convergence of neural interaction expresses itself as consciousness. 00:15:01.686 --> 00:15:05.721 At every moment we are, in fact, a different image. 00:15:05.721 --> 00:15:11.613 A different entity when mirroring, when hungry, when watching this video. 00:15:11.613 --> 00:15:17.803 Every second we become different persons as we go through different states. 00:15:17.803 --> 00:15:24.001 When we use our mirror neurons to look at ourselves, we may construct the idea of identity. 00:15:24.001 --> 00:15:32.183 But if we do this with our scientific understandings, we see something completely different. 00:15:32.183 --> 00:15:39.438 The neural synergies that produce our oscillating consciousness go far beyond our own neurons. 00:15:39.438 --> 00:15:44.394 We are equally the result of cerebral hemispheres interacting electrochemically, 00:15:44.394 --> 00:15:50.059 as we are of the senses connecting our neurons to other neurons in our environment. 00:15:50.059 --> 00:15:55.892 Nothing is external. This is not a hypothetical philosophy, 00:15:55.892 --> 00:15:58.498 it is the basic property of mirror neurons, 00:15:58.498 --> 00:16:03.138 which allow us to understand outselves through others. 00:16:03.138 --> 00:16:07.191 Seeing this neural activity as your own, while excluding the environment, 00:16:07.191 --> 00:16:10.305 would be a misconception. 00:16:13.260 --> 00:16:18.161 Our superorganismal features are also reflected in evolution, 00:16:18.161 --> 00:16:23.183 where our survival as primates relied on our collective abilities. 00:16:23.183 --> 00:16:28.777 Over time, the neocortical regions evolved to permit the modulation of primitive instincts 00:16:28.777 --> 00:16:35.529 and the overriding of hedonistic impulses for the benefit of the group. 00:16:35.529 --> 00:16:42.126 Our selfish genes have come to promote reciprocal social behaviors in superorganismal structures, 00:16:42.126 --> 00:16:48.034 effectively discarding the notion of "survival of the fittest". 00:16:48.034 --> 00:16:52.931 The brain`s neural activity resonates most coherently when there is no dissonance between 00:16:52.931 --> 00:16:59.048 these advanced new cerebral regions and the older more primitive ones. 00:16:59.048 --> 00:17:03.655 What we traditionally call “selfish tendencies” is only a narrow interpretation of 00:17:03.655 --> 00:17:07.681 what self-serving behavior entrails, wherein human characteristics are 00:17:07.681 --> 00:17:16.167 perceived through the flawed paradigm of identity… instead of through a scientific view on what we are: 00:17:16.167 --> 00:17:22.684 a momentaly expression of an ever-changing unity with no center. 00:17:22.684 --> 00:17:27.602 The psychological consequences of this as an objective belief system allow 00:17:27.602 --> 00:17:31.278 self-awareness without attachment to the imagined self, 00:17:31.278 --> 00:17:35.654 causing dramatic increases in mental clarity, social conscience, 00:17:35.654 --> 00:17:42.790 self-regulation and what`s often described as 'being in the moment'. 00:17:51.760 --> 00:17:56.171 The common cultural belief has mostly been that we need a narrative, 00:17:56.171 --> 00:18:01.196 a diachronic view on our life, to establish moral values. 00:18:01.196 --> 00:18:05.700 But with our current understandings of the empathic and social nature of the brain, 00:18:05.700 --> 00:18:11.423 we now know that scientific view, with no attachment to our identity or “story”, 00:18:11.423 --> 00:18:19.230 yields a far more accurate, meaningful and ethical paradigm than our anecdotal values. 00:18:21.815 --> 00:18:25.716 This is logical, since our traditional tendency to define ourselves 00:18:25.716 --> 00:18:29.800 as imaginary individualistic constants neurally wires 00:18:29.800 --> 00:18:34.340 and designs the brain towards dysfunctional cognitive processes, 00:18:34.340 --> 00:18:42.209 such as compulsive labeling and the psychological need to impose expectations. 00:18:45.963 --> 00:18:50.656 Practical labeling underpins all forms of interactions in our daily lives. 00:18:50.656 --> 00:18:56.819 But by psychologically labeling the self as internal and the environment as external, 00:18:56.819 --> 00:19:06.159 we constrain our own neurochemical processes and experience a deluded disconnection. 00:19:10.990 --> 00:19:15.630 Growth and its evolutionary side-effects, such as happiness and fulfilment, 00:19:15.630 --> 00:19:21.386 are stimulated when we are not being labeled in our interactions. 00:19:21.386 --> 00:19:26.924 We may have many different views and disagree with one another in practical terms, 00:19:26.924 --> 00:19:30.708 but interactions that nevertheless accept us for who we are, 00:19:30.708 --> 00:19:34.908 without judgment, are neuropsychological catalysts that wire 00:19:34.908 --> 00:19:44.230 the human brain to acknowledge others and accept rationally verified belief systems without dissonance. 00:19:44.230 --> 00:19:49.578 Stimulating this type of neural activity and interaction alleviates the need for distraction 00:19:49.578 --> 00:19:57.163 or entertainment and creates cycles of constructive behavior in our environment. 00:19:57.163 --> 00:20:01.758 Sociologists have established that phenomena such as obesity and smoking, 00:20:01.758 --> 00:20:06.922 emotions and ideas, spread and ripple through society in much the same way 00:20:06.922 --> 00:20:15.201 that electric signals of neurons are transferred when their activity is synchronized. 00:20:20.094 --> 00:20:24.407 We are a global network of neurochemical reactions. 00:20:24.407 --> 00:20:28.366 And the self-amplifying cycle of acceptance and acknowledgment, 00:20:28.366 --> 00:20:31.876 sustained by the daily choices in our interactions, 00:20:31.876 --> 00:20:36.066 is the chain-reaction that will ultimatly define our collective ability 00:20:36.066 --> 00:20:45.121 to overcome imagined differences and look at life in the grand scheme of things. 00:20:54.183 --> 00:21:03.272 You have been watching: God is in the Neurons 00:21:03.272 --> 00:21:11.750 Next up: The Grand Scheme of Things 00:21:11.750 --> 00:21:14.178 based on research by Athene 00:21:14.178 --> 00:21:17.341 edited and narrated by Reese015 00:21:17.341 --> 00:21:23.188 music by Professor Kliq 00:21:25.757 --> 00:21:29.097 Throughout Chiren's ongoing research, I have made a simplified 00:21:29.097 --> 00:21:32.758 but comprehensive overview of his current findings. 00:21:32.758 --> 00:21:40.694 This is my interpretation of the first few months of his work of unifying quantum physics and relativity. 00:21:40.694 --> 00:21:45.510 While it may, at times be difficult to follow due to the subject matter's complexity, 00:21:45.510 --> 00:21:52.681 it also has some philosophical implications, which are addressed in the epilogue. 00:21:52.681 --> 00:21:56.714 Over the past century, many groundbreaking discoveries have led to 00:21:56.714 --> 00:22:01.230 scientific paradigm shifts in our understanding of the world. 00:22:01.230 --> 00:22:07.032 Einstein's theory of relativity revealed how time and space are the same fabric, 00:22:07.032 --> 00:22:09.711 while Niels Bohr's research helped us understand 00:22:09.711 --> 00:22:13.094 the building blocks of matter trough quantum physics, 00:22:13.094 --> 00:22:18.492 a realm that only exists as "an abstract physical description". 00:22:18.492 --> 00:22:22.421 Afterwards Lui De Broglie discovered all matter, 00:22:22.421 --> 00:22:28.588 and not just photons or electrons has quantized wave/particle-duality. 00:22:28.588 --> 00:22:33.138 These breakthroughs have led to new schools of thought about the nature of reality 00:22:33.138 --> 00:22:38.198 and inspired popular metaphysical and pseudoscientific theories, 00:22:38.198 --> 00:22:44.651 such as the human mind being able to command the universe through positive thinking. 00:22:44.651 --> 00:22:52.752 However attractive, these theories have no verifiable evidence and can slow down scientific progress. 00:22:57.766 --> 00:23:03.738 Einstein's law of special and general relativity applied in modern day technologies, 00:23:03.738 --> 00:23:09.930 such as GPS satellites, where the accuracy of calculations would drift more than 7 miles per day 00:23:09.930 --> 00:23:16.296 if consequences such as time dilation would not be taken into account. 00:23:16.296 --> 00:23:22.434 Time dilation is best illustrated by how moving clocks run slower. 00:23:22.434 --> 00:23:24.300 Other implications of relativity are: 00:23:24.300 --> 00:23:32.079 length contraction, meaning that object in motion decrease in length and the relativity of simultaneity, 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:35.592 it is impossible to say in an absolute sense, 00:23:35.592 --> 00:23:42.688 whether to events occur at the same time when they are separated in space. 00:23:42.688 --> 00:23:46.038 Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. 00:23:46.038 --> 00:23:50.526 This means that is a bar of ten light-seconds long would be pushed forward, 00:23:50.526 --> 00:23:57.200 it would take ten second before the action can take place on the other side. 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:04.305 Without this time interval of ten seconds, the bar does not exist in its entirety. 00:24:04.305 --> 00:24:11.815 This is not due to our limitations as observers, but due to an inherent consequence of relativity, 00:24:11.815 --> 00:24:19.166 where time and space are interconnected and can not exists without each other. 00:24:21.658 --> 00:24:27.254 Quantum physics provides a mathematical description of much of the wave/particle-duality 00:24:27.254 --> 00:24:30.705 and interactions of energy and matter. 00:24:30.705 --> 00:24:37.522 It departs from classical physics, primarily at the atomic and sub-atomic scales. 00:24:37.522 --> 00:24:43.578 The mathematical formulations are abstract and the implications are often non-intuitive. 00:24:43.578 --> 00:24:50.701 A quantum is the minimum unit of any physical entity involved in an interaction. 00:24:50.701 --> 00:24:55.396 The elementary particles are the basic building blocks of the universe. 00:24:55.396 --> 00:24:59.796 They are the particles which all other particles are made of. 00:24:59.796 --> 00:25:04.224 While, in classical physics we can always split things into smaller bits, 00:25:04.224 --> 00:25:10.997 for a quanta this is impossible. As a result, the quantum world presents many unique phenomena 00:25:10.997 --> 00:25:14.042 that can not be explained through classical laws, 00:25:14.042 --> 00:25:22.352 such as quantum entanglement, the photoelectric effect. Compton scattering and many more. 00:25:22.352 --> 00:25:26.906 There are many exotic interpretations of our quantized world. 00:25:26.906 --> 00:25:31.143 The most widely accepted among physicists include the Copenhagen interpretation 00:25:31.143 --> 00:25:34.106 and the many-worlds interpretation. 00:25:34.106 --> 00:25:37.985 Current trends show substantial competition from alternative interpretations, 00:25:37.985 --> 00:25:42.186 such as the holographic universe. 00:25:50.155 --> 00:25:52.166 Part 1 00:25:52.166 --> 00:25:56.970 Part 1: De Broglie's Equations 00:25:56.970 --> 00:26:01.834 While both quantum physics and Einstein's laws of relativity are essential to 00:26:01.834 --> 00:26:04.713 our scientific understandings of the universe, 00:26:04.713 --> 00:26:10.888 there are many unresolved scientific problems and, thus far, no unifying theory. 00:26:10.888 --> 00:26:12.971 Some of the current questions are: 00:26:12.971 --> 00:26:17.116 - Why is there more observable matter than antimatter in the universe? 00:26:17.116 --> 00:26:20.242 - What is the nature of the arrow of time? 00:26:20.242 --> 00:26:23.360 - What is the origin of mass? 00:26:23.360 --> 00:26:29.332 One of the most important keys to finding the answer to these problems are De Broglie's equations, 00:26:29.332 --> 00:26:33.643 for which he was awarded the Noble Prize in physics. 00:26:33.643 --> 00:26:38.278 This formula shows how all matter has a wave/particle-duality, 00:26:38.278 --> 00:26:41.745 meaning that there are moments in which it behaves as a wave 00:26:41.745 --> 00:26:45.408 and others where it behaves as a particle. 00:26:45.408 --> 00:26:49.385 The formula combines Einstein's famous E=mc^2 (c squared) equation 00:26:49.385 --> 00:26:52.974 with the quantized nature of energy. 00:26:52.974 --> 00:26:56.241 Experimental evidence includes the interference pattern 00:26:56.241 --> 00:27:01.259 of C60 fullerene molecules in a double-slit experiment. 00:27:04.013 --> 00:27:09.015 The fact that our consciousness itself seems to be made up out of quantized particles 00:27:09.015 --> 00:27:12.585 has been the subject of many mystical theories. 00:27:12.585 --> 00:27:18.261 And while the relation between quantum mechanics and consciousness is unlikely to be as magical 00:27:18.261 --> 00:27:27.217 as recent esoteric movies and literature claim, there is nevertheless a profound implication. 00:27:35.080 --> 00:27:42.643 As De Broglie's equations apply to all matter, we can fundamentally establish that C equals hf, 00:27:42.643 --> 00:27:48.933 where C stands for consciousness, h for the constant of planck and f for frequency. 00:27:48.933 --> 00:27:53.403 C is responsible for what we experience as the now, 00:27:53.403 --> 00:27:57.573 a quantized or minimum unit of and interaction. 00:27:57.573 --> 00:28:04.182 The sum of all moments C uptil the current moment is what shapes concept of life. 00:28:04.182 --> 00:28:07.420 This is not a philosophical or theoretical statement 00:28:07.420 --> 00:28:12.912 but an inherent consequence of all matter and energy being quantized. 00:28:12.912 --> 00:28:21.463 The formula shows how life and death are abstract constructions of C(now). 00:28:21.463 --> 00:28:27.949 Another conseqeunce of De Broglie's equations is that the rate at which matter or energy fluctuates 00:28:27.949 --> 00:28:35.693 and acts like a wave or a particle is relative to the frequency of the frame of reference. 00:28:35.693 --> 00:28:39.829 Increases in frequency due to velocity are relative to others 00:28:39.829 --> 00:28:43.910 and bring about phenomena such as time dilation. 00:28:43.910 --> 00:28:50.146 The underlying reason is the uneffected experience of time relative to the reference frame 00:28:50.146 --> 00:28:57.157 where space and time are properties of quanta and not the other way around. 00:29:03.820 --> 00:29:05.172 Part 2 00:29:05.172 --> 00:29:11.105 Part 2: Antimatter and Unperturbed Time 00:29:11.105 --> 00:29:17.251 Large Hadron Collider (Switzerland) 00:29:20.098 --> 00:29:27.561 Antiparticles are created everywhere in the universe where high-energy particle collisions take place. 00:29:27.561 --> 00:29:32.867 This process is artifically simulated in particle accelerators. 00:29:32.867 --> 00:29:38.119 When matter is created, antimatter is created simultaneously, 00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:45.833 hence why the lack of antimatter is one of the biggest unsolved questions in physics to date. 00:29:45.833 --> 00:29:52.318 When we trap antiparticles through electromagnetic fields, we can study their properties. 00:29:52.318 --> 00:29:57.322 The quantum state of particles and antiparticles can be interchanged by applying 00:29:57.322 --> 00:30:01.603 the charge conjugation [C], parity [P], and time reversal [T] operators. 00:30:01.603 --> 00:30:02.659 To clarify: 00:30:02.659 --> 00:30:08.270 If a physicist whose body was made of antimatter, would do experiments in a laboratory 00:30:08.270 --> 00:30:12.626 also made of antimatter, using chemicals and substances made of antiparticles, 00:30:12.626 --> 00:30:18.543 he would find almost exactly the same results as his matter counterpart. 00:30:18.543 --> 00:30:24.669 But when they would merge, immense energy would be released proportional to their mass. 00:30:24.669 --> 00:30:29.647 Very recently, Fermilab discovered how quanta such as mesons are switching 00:30:29.647 --> 00:30:35.573 3 trillion times per second from matter to antimatter. 00:30:35.573 --> 00:30:39.851 When we study the universe from a quantized frame of reference C, 00:30:39.851 --> 00:30:45.675 we have to take into account all experimental evidence that applies to quanta. 00:30:45.675 --> 00:30:51.759 This includes how matter and antimatter are created simultanously in particle accelerators 00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:57.383 and how mesons switch back and forth between one and the other. 00:30:57.383 --> 00:31:01.666 This has significant consequences when applied to C. 00:31:01.666 --> 00:31:06.931 From a quantum perspective, every instance of C has an anti-C. 00:31:06.931 --> 00:31:10.389 This explains the missing symmetry or antimatter in the universe 00:31:10.389 --> 00:31:14.611 and is closely related to the arbitrary choice of emitter and absorber 00:31:14.611 --> 00:31:18.531 in the Wheeler-Feynman Time-Symmetric Theory. 00:31:18.531 --> 00:31:27.003 The unpertubed time t in the uncertainty principle is the required time or cycle for quanta to exist. 00:31:27.003 --> 00:31:33.806 Similar as observerved in mesons, our personal experience of time or interval of the current moment 00:31:33.806 --> 00:31:39.520 reaches its threshold when C is canceled out by its anti-C. 00:31:39.520 --> 00:31:47.754 C's interpretation of this single self-annihilating moment is framed within an abstract arrow of time. 00:31:47.754 --> 00:31:54.670 If we then want to define interaction and look at the basic properties of the wave/particle-duality of quanta 00:31:54.670 --> 00:31:59.814 all interactions would consist of interference and resonance. 00:31:59.814 --> 00:32:03.413 But since this isn't enough to explain the fundamental forces, 00:32:03.413 --> 00:32:06.489 we're required to use different models. 00:32:06.489 --> 00:32:10.998 This includes the standard model which mediates the dynamics of the known subatomic particles 00:32:10.998 --> 00:32:16.916 through forcecarriers and Einstein's general relativity which describes macroscopic phenomena 00:32:16.916 --> 00:32:25.039 such as the orbits of planets which follow a curvature or ellipse in space and helix in spacetime. 00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:28.919 But Einstein's model of spacetime doesn't hold up on quantum levels 00:32:28.919 --> 00:32:34.771 and the standard model needs additional fore carriers to explain the origin of mass. 00:32:34.771 --> 00:32:37.815 Without success, a unification of both models 00:32:37.815 --> 00:32:44.271 or theory of everything has been subjec of much research. 00:32:46.317 --> 00:32:47.623 Part 3 00:32:47.623 --> 00:32:58.667 Part 3: Theory of Everything 00:32:58.667 --> 00:33:02.367 Quantum mechanics is merely mathematical descriptions 00:33:02.367 --> 00:33:06.612 and their practical implications are often counter-intuitive. 00:33:06.612 --> 00:33:10.317 Classical concepts such as length, time, mass and energy 00:33:10.317 --> 00:33:14.140 can also be approached with similar descriptions. 00:33:14.140 --> 00:33:20.554 By building De Broglie's equations, we can substitute these concepts with abstract vectors. 00:33:20.554 --> 00:33:26.156 This is a probability-oriented approach towards the basic and already existing concepts in physics 00:33:26.156 --> 00:33:31.623 that allows us to unify quantum mechanics with Einstein's relativity. 00:33:31.623 --> 00:33:33.161 a) Quanta & Continuity 00:33:33.161 --> 00:33:37.087 De Broglie's equations show how all reference frames are quantized, 00:33:37.087 --> 00:33:40.627 including all matter and all energy. 00:33:40.627 --> 00:33:48.149 Particle accelerators have demonstrated that matter and anti-matter are always created simultaneously. 00:33:48.149 --> 00:33:54.096 The paradox of how reality can emerge from abstract building blocks that annihilate each other 00:33:54.096 --> 00:33:59.509 can be explained by using these quanta as the frame of reference. 00:33:59.509 --> 00:34:06.371 In a simplified analogy: we need to look at things through the eyes of a photon. 00:34:06.371 --> 00:34:12.000 The reference frame is always a quantum and defines how spacetime is quantized, 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:18.508 when it 'increases' or 'decreases', spacetime 'increases' or 'decreases' as well. 00:34:18.508 --> 00:34:23.775 This is reflected in quantum mechanics as the mathematical description of the probability amplitude 00:34:23.775 --> 00:34:31.669 of the wave function or in Einstein's relativity as time dilation and length contraction. 00:34:31.669 --> 00:34:39.113 For a quantized frame of reference, mass and energy can only be defined as abstract probabilities 00:34:39.113 --> 00:34:43.856 or, if we want to be more concrete and establish a mathematical framework, 00:34:43.856 --> 00:34:49.275 as vectors which can only exist when we assume an arrow of time. 00:34:49.275 --> 00:34:53.560 They can be derived as resonance and interference with the reference frame, 00:34:53.560 --> 00:34:57.893 which defines the minimum unit or spacetime constant c, 00:34:57.893 --> 00:35:04.429 equivalent to the constant of planck in quantum mechanics. 00:35:04.429 --> 00:35:09.109 Experiments show how conversion of matter into energy through its antimatter 00:35:09.109 --> 00:35:13.356 brings about gamma rays with exact opposite momentum. 00:35:13.356 --> 00:35:20.025 What seems to be a conversion, is the ratio between opposite vectors interpreted as distance and time, 00:35:20.025 --> 00:35:24.138 matter and antimatter, mass and energy or interference 00:35:24.138 --> 00:35:29.216 and resonance within the abstract arrow of time C(now). 00:35:29.216 --> 00:35:32.566 The sum of opposite vectors is always zero, 00:35:32.566 --> 00:35:36.677 this is the reason for the symmetry or conversation laws in physics 00:35:36.677 --> 00:35:43.490 or why, at the speed of c, time and space are zero due to length contraction and time diletion. 00:35:43.490 --> 00:35:46.668 A consequence is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, 00:35:46.668 --> 00:35:49.338 which states that certain pairs of physical properties, 00:35:49.338 --> 00:35:55.358 such as position and momentum cannot be known simultaneously to high precision. 00:35:55.358 --> 00:36:01.163 In a sense, a single particle is its own field. 00:36:03.718 --> 00:36:11.658 This does not explain our sense of continuity, where C cancels itself out within its own required interval. 00:36:11.658 --> 00:36:16.098 But when these vectors are exponentially amplified or accelerated 00:36:16.098 --> 00:36:19.388 relative to and within the abstract arrow of time, 00:36:19.388 --> 00:36:24.454 the underlying mathematical algorithms, also describing the fundamental forces, 00:36:24.454 --> 00:36:29.967 can bring about a consistent reality, and have abstract building blocks. 00:36:29.967 --> 00:36:34.151 This is why the harmonic motion equations are used in many fields of physics 00:36:34.151 --> 00:36:40.059 involving periodic phenomena, such as quantum mechanic and electrodynamics 00:36:40.059 --> 00:36:44.923 or why Einstein's equivelence principle, used to derive the model of spacetime, 00:36:44.923 --> 00:36:49.608 states that there is no difference between gravity and acceleration. 00:36:49.608 --> 00:36:56.074 Because gravity is only a force when interpreted relative to an oscillating frame of reference. 00:36:56.074 --> 00:37:02.710 This can be illustrated with a logarythmic curve being reduced to a helix curve by the reference frame, 00:37:02.710 --> 00:37:06.807 making objects spin and move in orbits. 00:37:06.807 --> 00:37:12.302 Visually simplified, two amplified or growing apples will be interpreted to attract each other 00:37:12.302 --> 00:37:17.965 when observed by an amplified reference frame, as the size seems unaffected. 00:37:17.965 --> 00:37:20.494 The opposite occurs with interference. 00:37:20.494 --> 00:37:27.245 In a simplified analogy, the increase or decrease in the size of objects as we get closer or further away, 00:37:27.245 --> 00:37:31.097 is determined by the shift in vectors of the reference frame, 00:37:31.097 --> 00:37:36.690 similar to how a radio homes in on different waves to pick up radio stations. 00:37:36.690 --> 00:37:43.479 This also applies to the influence of gravity. 00:37:43.479 --> 00:37:49.637 In essence, independently of any reference frame, there are no fundamental forces. 00:37:49.637 --> 00:37:54.109 All interactions within our abstract continuity can be mathematically derived through 00:37:54.109 --> 00:37:57.125 interference and resonance, as long as the ever changing 00:37:57.125 --> 00:38:03.954 and fluctuating minimum unit or quantum, being the frame of reference, is taken into account. 00:38:03.954 --> 00:38:07.715 Experimental evidence includes the unseen effect in the standard model, 00:38:07.715 --> 00:38:11.630 where we can see the force-effect but not the actual force-carriers. 00:38:21.877 --> 00:38:34.110 b) Quantum Superposition 00:38:34.110 --> 00:38:40.660 The consistent continuity of reality doesn't require quanta to have any specific sequence in time. 00:38:40.660 --> 00:38:44.547 A quantum is not subject to any notion of space or time 00:38:44.547 --> 00:38:49.612 and can occupy all of its possible quantum states simultaneously. 00:38:49.612 --> 00:38:54.426 This is called quantum superposition and has been demonstrated in experiment such as 00:38:54.426 --> 00:38:58.211 the double slit experiment or quantum teleportation, 00:38:58.211 --> 00:39:06.957 where every electron in the universe for example could be the exact same one. 00:39:06.957 --> 00:39:12.262 The only requirement for an abstract arrow of time and consistent continuity or reality 00:39:12.262 --> 00:39:18.200 is the algorithm describing the pattern or abstract sequence of vectors. 00:39:18.200 --> 00:39:21.915 Since this continuity brings about our ability to be self-aware 00:39:21.915 --> 00:39:30.083 it inherently makes us subject to its mathematical consequences: the fundamental laws of physics. 00:39:30.083 --> 00:39:35.404 Interaction is merely an interpretation of what is essentially an abstract pattern. 00:39:35.404 --> 00:39:39.932 This is why quantum mechanics can only provide mathematical descriptions, 00:39:39.932 --> 00:39:45.899 since it can only describe patterns within infinite probabilities. 00:39:45.899 --> 00:39:48.848 When probability is expressed as C, 00:39:48.848 --> 00:39:53.716 the information necessary to describe the current moment or probability amplitude of C 00:39:53.716 --> 00:39:58.581 is also what embodies the arrow of time. 00:39:58.581 --> 00:40:02.815 The nature of the arrow of time is one of the biggest unsolved problem in physics 00:40:02.815 --> 00:40:07.335 and has been responsible for many new popular interpretation. 00:40:07.335 --> 00:40:12.932 The holographic principle for example, property of quantum gravity and string theories, 00:40:12.932 --> 00:40:27.146 theorizes how the entire universe can be seen as an information structure of only two dimensions. 00:40:27.146 --> 00:40:44.137 c) Time 00:40:44.137 --> 00:40:49.453 We transitionally associate the notion of an arrow time with the sequence of events 00:40:49.453 --> 00:40:54.612 that experience through the arrangement of short-term and long-term memories. 00:40:54.612 --> 00:40:59.860 We cam only have memories about the past not about the future and we've always assumed 00:40:59.860 --> 00:41:04.161 that this reflects the flow of time. 00:41:04.161 --> 00:41:09.775 Scientist only began to question this logic when discoveries in quantum mechanics demonstrated 00:41:09.775 --> 00:41:17.344 that some phenomena are not bound by our notion of time and that our concept of it is nothing more 00:41:17.344 --> 00:41:21.897 than our perception of the change in observable values. 00:41:21.897 --> 00:41:26.645 This is also reflected in time dilation and length contraction, 00:41:26.645 --> 00:41:34.412 which are part of the reason why Einstein established that time and space are the same fabric. 00:41:34.412 --> 00:41:40.311 An absolute sense, the notion of time does not differs from the notion of distance. 00:41:40.311 --> 00:41:45.934 Seconds are equal to light-seconds but cancel eachother out. 00:41:45.934 --> 00:41:50.212 To clarify: With distance and time being each other's opposites, 00:41:50.212 --> 00:41:55.747 the passing of time can be interpreted as distance that the hands of a clock travel 00:41:55.747 --> 00:42:01.829 as they move in a direction that is opposite to time. 00:42:01.829 --> 00:42:09.380 As they move forward in distance, they effectively move backwards in what we could call time. 00:42:09.380 --> 00:42:14.098 This is also why any single separate minimum unit of experience 00:42:14.098 --> 00:42:19.247 is always instantly annihilated within a timeless now. 00:42:19.247 --> 00:42:29.978 The understanding sets the record straight between wave function collapse and quantum decoherence. 00:42:29.978 --> 00:42:35.584 Concepts such as life and death are mere intellectual constructs. 00:42:35.584 --> 00:42:41.117 And any speculative spiritual idea of an afterlife that take place in a realm 00:42:41.117 --> 00:42:51.766 where the rigid mathematical underpinning of this reality come to an end are equally fabricated. 00:42:51.766 --> 00:42:56.546 An important cosmological consequence is that the big bang theory, 00:42:56.546 --> 00:43:02.630 where the universe is traced back to one point by looking at the past, is a misconception. 00:43:02.630 --> 00:43:06.861 The traditional assumption of spacetime, where space is three-dimensional 00:43:06.861 --> 00:43:11.400 and time plays the role of a fourth dimension is inaccurate. 00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:17.351 If we would want to study the origin of the universe we would actually have to look "forward", 00:43:17.351 --> 00:43:22.151 since Cnow's time vector direction is opposite to the arrow of distance, 00:43:22.151 --> 00:43:26.598 from which we perceive an expending universe. 00:43:26.598 --> 00:43:31.431 Although this temporal mapping of the universe will only yield abstract concepts 00:43:31.431 --> 00:43:37.018 with no relation to its quantum underpinnings. 00:43:37.018 --> 00:43:41.633 Experimental evidence includes the accelerating expanding universe, 00:43:41.633 --> 00:43:45.617 following what is known to be an inverse or time-reversed blackhole metric, 00:43:45.617 --> 00:43:59.532 as well as many problems related to the big bang theory such as the horizon problem. 00:43:59.532 --> 00:44:03.716 d) Neurological Implications 00:44:03.716 --> 00:44:08.501 These derivations could bring up questions about free will, 00:44:08.501 --> 00:44:16.336 since awareness seems to only take place after the action within our perception of time. 00:44:16.336 --> 00:44:20.716 Most neurological investigations that have shed light on this question show 00:44:20.716 --> 00:44:26.167 that action is indeed taken before becoming conscious of it. 00:44:26.167 --> 00:44:32.655 But a deterministic point of view is based on an erroneous concept of time, as is illustrated 00:44:32.655 --> 00:44:38.885 by the mathematical probability descriptions in quantum mechanics. 00:44:38.885 --> 00:44:44.599 These understandings will be relevant in future neurological research, 00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:48.732 since they show how any neural circuit is a vector with direction, 00:44:48.732 --> 00:44:56.549 underpinning cognitive dissonance and interference or resonance within C. 00:44:56.549 --> 00:45:01.184 The ability understand and consciously alter these directions, 00:45:01.184 --> 00:45:04.267 acquired trough billions of years of evolution, 00:45:04.267 --> 00:45:10.118 confirms how important our belief system are in expending our awareness 00:45:10.118 --> 00:45:12.971 and how they affect our working memory 00:45:12.971 --> 00:45:17.150 which is responsible for the extent to which we can make connections 00:45:17.150 --> 00:45:21.918 and for the neural processes that create meaning. 00:45:21.918 --> 00:45:28.253 It also explains how artificial awareness will require a network of independent processors 00:45:28.253 --> 00:45:38.493 instead of linear sequence of complex algorithms. 00:45:38.493 --> 00:45:40.920 e) A Limited Interpretation 00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:48.506 Athene's grand unification is one solution that unifies quantum physics and Einstein's theory of relativity. 00:45:48.506 --> 00:45:53.118 While it answers many problems in physics such as the ones listed here, 00:45:53.118 --> 00:45:59.336 it is my limited interpretation of his first months of scientific research. 00:45:59.336 --> 00:46:07.691 What ever the outcome, it is clear that we have entered an era where science is open to everyone. 00:46:07.691 --> 00:46:15.903 And is we can preserve unfiltered access to a neutral internet, we can test the validity of our ideas, 00:46:15.903 --> 00:46:20.770 we can enhance our imagination by making new correlations, 00:46:20.770 --> 00:46:50.915 and we can be part of the evolution of our understandings of the universe and of the mind. 00:46:50.915 --> 00:47:01.175 Epilogue 00:47:01.175 --> 00:47:05.642 In quantum mechanics we have learned to approach reality differently, 00:47:05.642 --> 00:47:10.142 and see everything as probabilities instead of certainties. 00:47:10.142 --> 00:47:14.045 In a mathematical sense anything is possible. 00:47:14.045 --> 00:47:19.610 As well as in science as in our daily lives, the extent to which we can calculate 00:47:19.610 --> 00:47:26.215 or figure out probabilities is determined by our intellectual capability to recognize patterns. 00:47:26.215 --> 00:47:32.311 The less bias we are, the clear we can identify these patterns 00:47:32.311 --> 00:47:37.361 and base our actions on reasonable probabilities. 00:47:37.361 --> 00:47:42.235 Since it's in the very nature of our left brain's hemisphere to deny ideas 00:47:42.235 --> 00:47:47.366 that do not fit into our current paradigm, the more attached we are to belief system, 00:47:47.366 --> 00:47:53.061 the less able we are to make conscious choices for ourselves. 00:47:53.061 --> 00:48:01.261 But by observing this process, we expand our awareness and enhance our free will. 00:48:01.261 --> 00:48:07.346 It is said that wisdom comes with age, but with openness and skepticism, 00:48:07.346 --> 00:48:10.813 the key principle of the scientific method, 00:48:10.813 --> 00:48:18.164 we don't need decades of trial and error to sort out which of our convictions may be improbable. 00:48:18.164 --> 00:48:22.233 The question is not whether our beliefs are right or wrong, 00:48:22.233 --> 00:48:29.779 but whether or not being emotionally attached to them is more or less likely going to benefit us. 00:48:29.779 --> 00:48:36.095 There is no such thing as a free choice while being emotionally attached to a belief system. 00:48:36.095 --> 00:48:40.442 The moment we are self-aware enough to realize this, 00:48:40.442 --> 00:48:57.747 we can truly work together to figure out the real odds of what will benefit us the most. 00:48:57.747 --> 00:49:10.069 "The evolution of quantum mechanics has been one of unprecedented skeptical scrutiny towards our classical scientific paradigms. The self-awareness and willingness to revise our hypotheses, which are constantly challenged in science and humanity, will determine the extent to which we gain deeper understanding into the mind and the universe."