Are there other versions of you? What entanglement and the multiverse actually say — and what they don't
Two of the strangest ideas in physics — quantum entanglement and the many-worlds multiverse — get fused into one cosmic story about copies of you living parallel lives. The truth is that they're separate, and separating them honestly makes both stranger, not tamer.
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In 1983, a US Army intelligence officer wrote a 29-page classified report drawing on quantum physics and neuroscience to explain how altered states work. It wasn't what the internet says it was. It was stranger and more interesting.
Read →Can you feel someone staring at you? The science is stranger than a simple yes or no
You turn around and someone's watching. Almost everyone has felt it. The research into whether this is real — and what it means if it is — opens a genuinely strange question about where perception ends and the world begins.
Read →If Donald Hoffman is right, embodiment is the rarest thing in the universe
A UC Irvine cognitive scientist spent 40 years building a mathematical framework where consciousness, not matter, is fundamental. His latest claim: bodied awareness like yours is a vanishingly small corner of what's possible — and most consciousness in the universe might have no body at all.
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