The Problem With Uploading Your Consciousness | Cosmic Queries #105
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Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://www.shopify.com/startalk Is your consciousness a quantum phenomenon? Is the universe one predetermined block? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab bag questions about quantum theory, the cosmological constant, and retrocausality with astrophysicist Charles Liu. We explore a question about the Big Rip, quarks, and whether tearing the universe apart could spark a brand-new Big Bang. We break down why phantom energy would be required, what dark energy might be, and why current observations suggest the universe probably won’t rip itself to shreds even though we still don’t know what 95% of the cosmos actually is. Could the cosmological constant be changing over time? Can light help us reconcile relativity and quantum mechanics? We discuss the work of Jacob Barandes at Harvard and whether the "duality" of light is the lynchpin to a unified theory. Are today’s mathematical tools just placeho
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