Comments on: Book review – Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime/2020/01/13/book-review-something-deeply-hidden-quantum-worlds-and-the-emergence-of-spacetime/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:59:53 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/01/13/book-review-something-deeply-hidden-quantum-worlds-and-the-emergence-of-spacetime/comment-page-1/#comment-94720Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:59:53 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=5046#comment-94720[…] that Mitchell confuses unpredictability and indeterminacy. Second, quantum mechanics. Oh dear. As I have written elsewhere, this is a terribly abused idea that few people other than physicists have any business of […]

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]]>By: Book review – Determined: Life Without Free Will | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/01/13/book-review-something-deeply-hidden-quantum-worlds-and-the-emergence-of-spacetime/comment-page-1/#comment-94710Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:26:13 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=5046#comment-94710[…] want to write this chapter” (p. 203). Fortunately, he was advised by physicist Sean Carroll, whose humble and careful views I trust. I actually mostly agree with Sapolsky on all three, though I remain intrigued by emergent […]

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]]>By: Book review – Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/01/13/book-review-something-deeply-hidden-quantum-worlds-and-the-emergence-of-spacetime/comment-page-1/#comment-39668Mon, 17 Jan 2022 11:55:56 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=5046#comment-39668[…] I do not really understand quantum mechanics, but as physicist Sean Carroll points out, neither do physicists. Foster admits to no such thing and instead confirms my suspicion that […]

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]]>By: Book review – How to Predict Everything: The Formula Transforming What We Know About Life and the Universe | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/01/13/book-review-something-deeply-hidden-quantum-worlds-and-the-emergence-of-spacetime/comment-page-1/#comment-9791Tue, 26 May 2020 11:53:05 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=5046#comment-9791[…] physics, you cannot avoid quantum mechanics, so Poundstone duly brings it up. My recent review of Something Deeply Hidden had prepared me for the many-worlds interpretation espoused by Everett, though Poundstone does a […]

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]]>By: Book review – Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/01/13/book-review-something-deeply-hidden-quantum-worlds-and-the-emergence-of-spacetime/comment-page-1/#comment-8666Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:40:48 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=5046#comment-8666[…] that even Einstein did not succeed in unifying gravity and quantum theory (see also my review of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime). But even here, Cowen is enlightening. I had heard of the models that postulate that the universe […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/01/13/book-review-something-deeply-hidden-quantum-worlds-and-the-emergence-of-spacetime/comment-page-1/#comment-8591Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:57:13 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=5046#comment-8591[…] a good substitute? I found this particular excursion poorly explained; hopefully, Carroll’s Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime will help me better understand […]

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