Wolfram Finally Understands and Explains Quantum Mechanics | Stephen Wolfram at The UIUC Talkshow

In a nutshell, he meant they still don’t understand quantum mechanics.

It has been shown. that in certain circumstances there is a high probability, that is when things line up, it happens. Inconclusively!

This is nothing new. He’s just rehashing the Everettian interpretation of QM and like he does so often fails to credit precursors for their ideas and acts like he thought this up himself.

Well, that makes two of us.

Yes, you got it! All conceivable realities actually exist and are real for “those” in that frame of reference. So we are part of “all those realities” (we are actually projecting them), and we simply collapse one of the infinite realities into our experience and call it “come to pass”. This is the essence of the Observer Effect. That’s all that QM really describes. 👍🏼

He said, "I really understand quantum mechanics"! He is in a superposition state of genius and stupid :D Let Einstein enter the system and collapse the wave function. "Nowadays, every Tom, Dick, and Harry thinks he knows it, but he is mistaken."

I browsed Wolframs book where he, a long time ago, tried to do something we claimed were phys8cs. I also browsed a book Hubbard, the father of Scientology wrote on his stuff. They were pretty much of the same quality! It isn't just AI:s which can hallucinate! We all do that while dreaming, but only a few of us can write like that while awake. They were awake, weren't they?

He seems to be describing universe as a giant git repository..

There is no merging in the quantum many-worlds. The only way to turn two branches into one is when they are identical.

what is going on with the circular area on the board right behind the back of his head? xD wth is this wobblyness when his head comes close? xD

so we're dealing with histories we don't know about but we are a part of ? Sexy, exotic

So if you go ask your professor and they don't have anything sensible to say, can you say that you were probably barking up the wrong tree branch?

"Branching timeliness and "branching brains". Weird claims based on absolutely zero evidence. wtf is he talking about? Lol

No

Why do 8 billion individual brains, minds, follow the same single winding path thru his branching time Universe??

Wolf's a smart guy and all due respect to him, but no he doesn't understand QM. How could he even address the "knowing" subject without mentioning/addressing Bell's theorem? Knowing in a broad sense means replacing the statistical mechanics with classical mechanics. A much more fruitful path to understanding comes from following De Broglie's ideas about wave mechanics and physical interpretation of such. Google (and youtube) around on "walking drops" for some insightful experiments in that regard. Yet Bell looms large over all these considerations... it's hard to get around the guy (grin). He really earned that Nobel.

A physicist "understanding" a mathematical model is the same thing as a Geocentric Epicyclist "understanding" why planets go retrograde. To have an "understanding" of phenomena viewed through a wrong paradigm is not exactly a good thing.

I agree with Wolfram that the Many Worlds implementation of QM is the most sensible one.

And still the old Feynman saying stands "if you think you understand quantum mechanics then you don't understand quantum mechanics". That was 4 minutes of nonsense

Well it turns out: He does not know more than any other individual on the planet. He just uses different words and cites Everettian hypotheses which are still considererd strange - compatible with assumptions, calculations, possible but not really something that can be understood (rather than accepted as being not refuted). What is this bragging all about? I don’t get it.