The Interface Between Science and Magic
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In this episode, I discuss the interface between science and magic, and how you really can t have one without the other, despite the fact that we live in an era where so many people have become convinced that the universe is nothing but a bunch of billiard balls.
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the interface between science and magic is the topic for this video I'm going to
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be discussing how you really can't have one without the other despite the fact
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that we live in an era where so many people have become convinced that the
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universe is nothing but billiard balls despite ongoing scientific discoveries contradicting that
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notion. It's worth understanding how we got to this point and we're just going to use prosaic
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reasoning for this. We're not going to suspect machination. We're going to leave it at manifest
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You see, the human understanding of reality and our place in it
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and how we interact with it started 2,000 years ago, 3,000 years ago,
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because the way that you discover a new mathematical theory
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You ask a question, but the only way to properly answer it, it seems, is to do endless counting.
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And then you sit around and you think about it.
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When suddenly a way of approaching the problem completely sideways occurs to you,
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and you're able to make a definitive statement on whether this thing is true or false.
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And once you discover a mathematical theory, it's known, it's proven, and it never becomes unproven.
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people like to look down upon the ancient greek philosophers for sitting around and pondering the
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lotus instead of doing physical experiments but you have to understand where these guys were
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coming from in mathematics it is literally studying the lotus how you come up with a new
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mathematical discovery there is no physical work you can do to achieve these ends and so
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So, political philosophy, life philosophy, these things were very much based upon the same process.
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Sitting about, thinking, discussing, and arguing, as opposed to testing.
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Now, these experiments of the mind eventually led to engineering.
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And engineering is a little bit closer to what we call science these days.
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We discover these mathematical properties, these ratios, the angles within a triangle.
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And we start applying them to building structures, to building bridges, to aqueducts.
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And so we kind of wound up with a bunch of best practices based upon experimentation, but also developed through mathematics.
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And only after that, only after we'd really advanced in mathematics,
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and started doing some amazing feats of engineering.
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Only then did we start getting the idea of testing everything in the physical world
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through experiment, hypothesis, validation, cancellation, double-blinding it,
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It wasn't until we had this groundwork of math and engineering that science came along.
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You need that before you get to the next thing.
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however this leaves a massive blind spot in our present approach to reality
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and that blind spot is who is doing the watching who is doing the scientific experiment we've
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become so laser focused upon the billiard balls that we forgot about the philosopher
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The eternal observer observing the experiments.
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And it has a necessary interface with the science we perform.
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I'm going to be digging in to the observer effect in quantum mechanics.
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A topic that is grossly misunderstood most of the time.
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it does sort of point to what i'm saying but it's very much misunderstood which is part of the
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reason i'm including it in this video not only is it useful for the point i'm making this is going
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to be my final statement on the observer effects it drives me up the wall of people
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it's misunderstood in a very understandable way but it's still being misunderstood
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So this is going to be clarifying what it actually is, while also using it to point out that observer and observed, that ontology and epistemology are two halves of the same coin, and that magic and science are fundamentally interrelated while being complete opposites of one another.
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the goal is to give you a contextual framework because i'm assuming that like like me you've
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been born into this materialist billiard ball universe of a culture and so believing in magic
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is extremely difficult and if you don't believe in it it will never work
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and so we're about to dive into it but one last thing if you watch this video to the end
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I promise you that in the days and weeks to come,
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you are going to notice your own latent psychic ability
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the double-slit experiment, the nature of light itself.
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like a bullet for example what you would expect to see is two bands on either side
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right if you were firing bullets at a wall that had two holes in it if you were firing a machine
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gun at it you'd expect most of the bullets are going to hit the first wall but the ones that
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go through and hit the second wall you'll see a double pattern one went through the left hole
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one went through the right hole. Alternatively, if you have a pool of water and you send waves,
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waves of energy up and down through the water towards two slits, well, that one wave source,
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which is propagating out in circles, is going to reset when it gets to the hole. And now you'll
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have the two holes being two waves propagating. And when you have two waves, they interfere with
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each other. Sometimes they're twice as strong, sometimes they're twice as low, and other times
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they cancel out. This is known as an interference pattern. And so Young performed the experiment
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and demonstrated that when light went through these two holes, you got an interference pattern.
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Ergo, light is a wave, leading to speculation about the luminous aether through which light
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A century later, physics moves on, science moves on, and Einstein and Maxwell Planck
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had been working on the beginnings of quantum theory.
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And what they argued was that energy, particularly electromagnetic energy, has a smallest viable
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at a metal plate, you get electricity flowing off of it.
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And so the energy is either below the threshold
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And what they demonstrated was that light is digital.
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experiment where it acted like a wave? Well, a few years later
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managed to build a photon gun, a light source that would send the smallest viable amount
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of light, a photon, through it, towards the double slit.
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And if you're shining it at the two holes, you'd expect that you'd get the two lines on the other side.
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After all, each photon that impacts on the third wall, or the far wall behind it, impacts somewhere specific.
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One photon comes out, one photon is received, and we know exactly where it is received.
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When they fired one photon at a time, they still got an interference pattern.
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So most of them would appear in the largest band.
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A smaller number would appear in the next two bands.
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But when you fired a thousand of them in a row, you got an interference pattern once again.
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It was as if, even though you were firing the photons one at a time,
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It was as if they were interacting with the other 999 photons
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that were fired over the length of the experiment.
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And it has to go either through the left hole or the right hole.
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But it's acting like it's a million photons at once, interfering with one another until it gets to the far screen.
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Okay, so what if we put a photon detector on one of the two slits?
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All of a sudden, we started getting two bands, as if they were bullets.
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Not just when they went through the slit with the photon detector.
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They act like bullets. They act like particles.
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When you don't examine them, you let them do their own thing,
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and it's an infinite number of photons going through,
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it finds the probability, and it picks one of those
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In between the photon gun and the receiver wall, it's not a photon.
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It's an infinite number of photons interacting with one another on a probability scale.
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Now this is where most descriptions of the observer affect N.
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There is no 5 pounds of awareness, or 343 joules of perception.
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Even though you can't have a scientific experiment without an observer.
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so what this experiment what the observer effect is really pointing towards is not that your
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conscious observation alters the nature of reality that's that's what most people say it
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means but that's not what it's saying what it's saying is we thought observers were outside the
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system imagine scientific experiments imagine them like a big pinball machine right an exceedingly
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complex pinball machine locked behind glass and we've got a few controls on the outside we put a
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quarter in ball appears we pull the puncher the ball flies up we can move a couple of the paddles
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around. We can tilt the machine, and we've been drawing all of these inferences,
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these conclusions, repeating these actions again and again, seeing how the
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ball moves around inside the pinball machine. And what the Observer Effect
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does is it makes us realize that we are not outside of the pinball machine. We
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are part of the pinball machine itself. That this observer that's doing the scientific
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experiments is also part of the experiment. That this reduction of the universe into nothing
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but billiard balls? Well, it turns out we also are billiard balls. So what the heck's
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going on there. This is the question of epistemology versus ontology. Epistemology from the Greek
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to know, and ontology from the Greek to be, the nature of being.
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It's completely excluded from the entire scientific method,
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the idea being that anybody can perform the experiment
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epistemology the world the world of it the world of thou ontology the world of i me we
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perception itself and that which is perceived are like the north and south poles of a magnet
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this realm of mathematics where we started with all
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this sitting around and pondering until you can approach the infinite from a sideways direction
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to discover something new about it that you could never do through experimentation
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you can never prove that pi has infinite numbers by calculating pi because there's always more
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numbers to discover. You have to prove that in a different manner. That's where ontology
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exists. This is why the Pythagoreans were a religious sect. And this is where magic
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exists. It's not contradictory to epistemology. There are things we know about the world.
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there can also be things we know about ourselves.
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And if we know things about ourselves, about our perception,
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we can alter that in the same manner as we can alter the physical world.
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This is where it starts to come together into something useful.
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So when it comes to altering the physical world,
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Instead of trying to group force the large boulder
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because there's no way anybody physically lifted all those stones
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when it comes to the mental sciences, to magic.
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I'm usually gone for a few weeks when I'm working.
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so when i'm going out to the field there's two ways that i could look at this
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i could look at this and see well i am signing back up to be a slave for a few weeks time
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my schedule's not my own my time's not my own my outfit is not my own everything is being
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dictated towards me, I am effectively three weeks a slave.
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Or, or I could say to myself, me and the boys are here enough to go out into the deep wilderness
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and we can repeat that destructive pattern ad nauseam
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So just the same as Grug the Caveman learning to use a simple lever,
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However, if you start applying this regularly in your own life, if you start manipulating, controlling where you're looking, what you're perceiving, what part of the story are you in?
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Well, maybe you're in the part of the story at the beginning where the protagonist is getting beat down.
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It means that you're going to have a happy ending.
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And one final concrete example of how perception alters reality.
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At the start of this video, I promised, if you watched it all the way through, that your
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psychic abilities would begin manifesting more strongly, that you'd become more effective.
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I have, in fact, shown you some examples of how you can do that.
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But the reason I said that was to instantiate a placebo effect in you.
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Even though I'm telling you it's the placebo effect, it's still going to work on you.
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You are going to become more aware of yourself and of others around you.
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What their more complex, the hologram behind their eyes, behind their motives.
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you're going to see clearer and you're going to become more effective just because I'm telling
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you so. And finally, I said, what if we'd spent thousands of years studying how to manipulate
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the psyche to achieve better outcomes? What might that look like?
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Here's a second question. What makes you think people haven't been doing exactly that?