We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future - Neil Turok

Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, joins Paul Kennedy, host of CBC Radio's IDEAS, to kick off his 2012 Massey Lectures, "The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos".

[tistoni]

I showed this to my cat, and now it's a quantum cat.

[patrickpotter]

"Quantum" is still based on discrete amounts though, so isn't that more akin to digital than analog? Still seems like analog is above quantum in terms of amount of information.

[thatoneguy]

I would say digital /quantum life is the most important to be focusing on since that's what we are anyways, digital beings

[abrahampalmer]

Great video yea man human beings are made to be analog not digital because humans have feelings and emotions not digital like robots. Music is supposed to be analog of every genre. Today's society we have been programmed to believe digital is better because of the advance technology but is far from the truth.

[TheXComputerXDr]

This is reversed, we are digital beings, living in an anolog universe.

[cynocephalusw]

Physicists are a very overestimated. There is no such thing as a „quantum future“. Humans aren‘t analog beings at all. Their DNA ist digital and language is also a digital trait, that has to rely on digital structures in the cortex (Simon Baron-Cohen, Jaan Aru, Yiota Poirazi). Neil Turok is one of those modern scientists promising everything and holding nothing. I recommend Sabine Hossenfelder. She‘s challenging the hubris of physical theorists, who made no real progress over 50 years.