c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…is one particle which makes matter, space time and energy, and is probably the electron, but not the electron in the Heisenberg born description that describes the properties of the electron which account for physical matter. But the electron must be more…
…organism, and uh, and on the highest level but even or even a t4 phage bacteria is a staggering accomplishment for the Heisenberg born atoms. But that's intelligence, nothing more than just the fact that it's capable of doing it and for some reason it…
…in aggregates of tens of billions, produce stuff, stars, empty space, organisms matter. But you have to the trick is the Heisenberg born bit explains the physical universe it doesn't explain organism or mind so we have to overlay over that atomic model…
…has been more ballyhoo and self congratulations than about any other single concept is the much vaunted uncertainty principle of Heisenberg which is supposed to be a bridge to understanding consciousness uniting science and art letting us see the scintillating…
…us see the scintillating elusive mercurial beauty, it turns out it's BS to put it as kindly as possible. When the Bohr Heisenberg Theory was formulated there was another theory of the quanta on the table but this theory had an assumption built into it…
…now separated in time and space. So the physics community and let me say about the Bohm Theory and the Bohr Heisenberg Formulation: the mathematics is identical the mathematics is identical one does not give better results than the other but they have…
…not give better results than the other but they have these completely antithetical concepts built into them and I doubt that the Heisenberg thing will survive. It was actually a mistake and what I want to say then about the Bohm Formulation is with Bohm's…
…Chronons may not be reducible to atoms, but I suspect that what we and energy, but not the electron in the Heisenberg Bohr Description that describes the properties of the electron which account for physical matter. But the electron must be more complicated…
…into a living organism or a thinking organism, even a bacterium like e coli is a staggering accomplishment for the Heisenberg Bohr Atom. The Heisenberg Bohr model explains the physical universe. It doesn't explain organism or mind. We have to overlay…
…or a thinking organism, even a bacterium like e coli is a staggering accomplishment for the Heisenberg Bohr Atom. The Heisenberg Bohr model explains the physical universe. It doesn't explain organism or mind. We have to overlay that atomic model with…
…other competitors. Now we have grown up with the idea. Well we have grown up under the umbrella of what's called the Heisenberg Bohr model of the atom and the Heisenberg Bohr model has built into it this peculiar idea called the Heisenberg Uncertainty…
…the idea. Well we have grown up under the umbrella of what's called the Heisenberg Bohr model of the atom and the Heisenberg Bohr model has built into it this peculiar idea called the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle and there are few things that have…
…the Heisenberg Bohr model of the atom and the Heisenberg Bohr model has built into it this peculiar idea called the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle and there are few things that have been so ballyhooed and written about by non scientists as the Heisenberg…
…Uncertainty principle and there are few things that have been so ballyhooed and written about by non scientists as the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle and it's been claimed that it was an enormous bridge between the hard sciences and the spiritual world…
…proved that there was a materialist basis for thinking about of believing in a spiritual universe and here's what the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle is talking about it's saying that here you have a particle. It has properties like velocity and position.…
…and religion and family and culture and nation come on. It's tough to have to stand up and accept the responsibility. Heisenberg said that you create your own reality. You think you're studying a rally out there. You think that you're sending particles…
…conservative in what it says happens, it gains great explanatory power in saying when it will happen. It's almost like the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle where you can either state the position or the velocity of a particle but you cannot state the…
…door by 1948. It's one of the most unassimilated understandings of the 20th century. I mean everybody's heard of the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle and this that and the other. But realizing what gödel showed about the limitations of formal thought has…
…the counterintuitive is to be rejected. Well both of these theories had aspects of them which were counterintuitive. The Heisenberg Bohr Formulation had this thing I've just described to you embedded in it the uncertainty principle, the weird counterintuitive…
…quantum physics throughout the 20th century could be solved by admitting that the Copenhagen School, which is Niels Bohr and Heisenberg and all those untouchable and godlike figures to admit that they were actually wrong about something fundamental and that…
…wrestling with a mystery so profound, so bizarre, that even as we sit here with Husserl and Heidegger and Heisenberg and all these clowns under our belts it is still absolutely mysterious, appalling, challenging boundary dissolving and unavoidably ecstatic.…
…uncertainty built into it and they thought uncertainty was a smaller outrage to reason than non locality. So they chose the Heisenberg Bohr model with this uncertainty principle embedded in it but now in the last five years, non locality, which previously…
…perfect knowledge of velocity and position without ambiguity. It calls forth the notion of non locality that's why the Heisenberg Formulation was preferred but again, non locality accepted permits some of the things we're interested in: telepathy, information…
…from quantum physics in favor of an acceptance of a somewhat less outlandish but equally challenging notion which was the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle and that's how it was left for about 40 years. But there were thought experiments that people talked…
…and undergoing these things, and you are still trying to perform the eidetic reduction, still thinking about Husserl and Heidegger and Heisenberg you realize that your mental insides are too different to ever stand in their shoes. You have to make your own…
…fire 50 000 years ago or whatever it was, language 35 000, whatever, then measurement 5 000, then Galileo 400, then Heisenberg what is obviously happening is that everything is being drawn together. The description our physicists are giving us of the…
…of nature, and that's really what the crisis in science now is. The cutting edges of physical science have contacted the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle in the 20s, the anthropocentric principle in the 80s and 70s and we are realizing that somehow the…
…on this matter it appears that this is what it always looked like fuzzy and confused thinking and that the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, or rather the Heisenberg Formulation of the quantum theory, is now not to be preferred. The preferred understanding…
…this is what it always looked like fuzzy and confused thinking and that the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, or rather the Heisenberg Formulation of the quantum theory, is now not to be preferred. The preferred understanding now is the version of quantum…
…theories mathematically is precisely zero. There is no difference, but they make different assumptions, and the reason originally the Heisenberg Formulation was preferred was because it was felt that this uncertainty principle, which was a hard swallow, was not…
…separated by millions of light years of space and time. This was thought to be so counterintuitive, so preposterous that the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle was chosen as the lesser of two evils. But it turns out over the past ten years, experiments have…
…velocity and position. In other words it is somewhere and it is moving at some speed to somewhere else and the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle tells you that as you gain information about the position of the particle, you lose information about its…
…which of these theories shall we choose? Well there was something wrong with each one of them. What was wrong with the Heisenberg model, or I don't know wrong, but let's call it disturbing to the rational mind. What was disturbing to the rational mind…
…I don't know wrong, but let's call it disturbing to the rational mind. What was disturbing to the rational mind about the Heisenberg model was this uncertainty principle. Why can't you know the velocity and the position out to ten decimal points? Why does…
…the position out to ten decimal points? Why does one mitigate the other? And the answer was: well just because it's the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle. That's why the other model about which very few of us ever heard until recently, because once it was…
…it. That was so weird and so counterintuitive and so woo woo that everybody looking at the two theories said: go with Heisenberg, this other thing produces ghosts, it produces craziness. Well what was the craziness that it produced? Built into it was the…