Comments by "David Terr" (@dcterr1) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. What's scary to me about flat earthers is that if our society as we know it doesn't survive the 21st century, which isn't at all unlikely, their beliefs may take over.
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  2. Very good explanation of nonlocality in QM! I'm a physics expert so I already know most of what you talked about, but I never realized that measurement independence could be violated rather than locality. Still, I for one believe in free will, so if measurement independence violation is a way to salvage determinism, then I reject it!
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  3.  @milesgrooms7343  To me, free will is easiest to define as the opposite of determinism, namely the belief that everything that happens was predetermined at the beginning of the universe and we have no choice in the matter. So free will means conscious beings like ourselves are capable of making decisions and acting on them, thus affecting outcomes. Usually such actions are trivial, such as stopping at a red light or deciding which way to turn, but sometimes we must make crucial decisions that can have major consequences to the future course of our lives or other lives as well. Now plenty of determinists are convinced that this sense of freedom is just an illusion and that whatever thoughts we entertain leading to these decisions were predetermined as well, but I disagree with this. I know a lot of math and physics, including quantum mechanics, which is not a deterministic theory, and I believe consciousness, which is the source of free will, is part of this uncertainty.
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  4. I think we need a math-based religion.
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