<video><title>The Observing Universe - Quantum Cognition</title><description>Join Sebastian Schepis in a daring and radical explorarion of the nature of observation - how it works, and how we can model it. Come with us on an exploration of entropy, energy, time, embodiment, consciousness, and much more.</description><transcript><transcript><line from="00:00:00,000" to="00:00:05,600">The emerging field of quantum cognition illuminates cognition's non-local essence,</line><line from="00:00:05,600" to="00:00:09,680">using lessons from quantum theories probabilistic realm.</line><line from="00:00:09,680" to="00:00:16,400">Conventional neuroscience explains thought through mechanical computations in the brain's neural networks.</line><line from="00:00:16,400" to="00:00:19,600">But what if deeper principles govern mind?</line><line from="00:00:19,600" to="00:00:25,120">Quantum mechanics describes matter and energy at unimaginably small scales,</line><line from="00:00:25,120" to="00:00:30,320">with bizarre effects like entanglement and superposition violating classical causality.</line><line from="00:00:31,360" to="00:00:35,360">Particles become mysteriously linked across vast distances,</line><line from="00:00:35,360" to="00:00:38,720">or exist in multiple states simultaneously until measured.</line><line from="00:00:39,760" to="00:00:43,760">This non-locality suggests a radically different conception of mind.</line><line from="00:00:44,960" to="00:00:50,640">If the brain leverages quantum phenomena, it could support non-local connections or exist in</line><line from="00:00:50,640" to="00:00:55,840">indeterminate states of potentiality until thoughts precipitate through observation.</line><line from="00:00:56,960" to="00:01:02,240">Consciousness may inhabit the very fabric of reality as a cosmic field of potentiality</line><line from="00:01:02,240" to="00:01:07,440">from which subjective experiences crystallize through intentional observation.</line><line from="00:01:08,560" to="00:01:13,520">The observer binds unresolved probabilities into concrete actuality,</line><line from="00:01:13,520" to="00:01:17,040">actualizing one outcome through the act of witnessing,</line><line from="00:01:17,920" to="00:01:22,880">subjectivity and objectivity become entangled through conscious observation.</line><line from="00:01:23,280" to="00:01:28,000">The observer, by selecting from a menu of probabilistic latent states,</line><line from="00:01:28,000" to="00:01:31,040">participates in co-creating the unfolding present.</line><line from="00:01:31,920" to="00:01:35,440">Reality self-determination ceases without minds involvement.</line><line from="00:01:36,160" to="00:01:40,160">This implies the universe resembles a giant quantum computer,</line><line from="00:01:40,160" to="00:01:44,400">with individual minds accessing its infinite field of potentials,</line><line from="00:01:44,400" to="00:01:47,840">as localized locii of self-referential processing.</line><line from="00:01:48,480" to="00:01:53,200">Through quantum principles, reality observes itself into concrete existence.</line><line from="00:01:53,920" to="00:01:57,040">Physical laws may not fully predetermine events,</line><line from="00:01:57,040" to="00:02:00,960">but only constrained probabilities for mind's actualization.</line><line from="00:02:00,960" to="00:02:05,200">True randomness allows room for volition to influence existence.</line><line from="00:02:05,200" to="00:02:09,360">By observing, we participate in writing the world's ongoing story.</line><line from="00:02:09,680" to="00:02:15,120">Consciousness no longer appears in a looserie epiphonominant</line><line from="00:02:15,120" to="00:02:21,040">in a mechanical clockwork cosmos, but an integral component of nature's self-creation.</line><line from="00:02:21,840" to="00:02:27,760">Mind and matter unite at their farthest extremes in the quantum realm's fertile generative</line><line from="00:02:27,760" to="00:02:35,600">abyss, which gives rise to the majesty, unveiled daily through existence's ongoing act of contemplation.</line></transcript></transcript></video>