Benjamin Labatut, "When We Cease to Understand the World" (NYRB, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
00:00
Heisenberg and Uncertainty
I was drawn to heidsemburg, the copenhagen interpretation. It's basically a capitulation where they said, ok, we cannot look at the world just one set of eyesand that is something that i have gone through as a personal experience. And after that er, i had to sort of expand my world view. I had to start considering ideas and differing models of the world. We pride ourselves in an understanding that i am not really sure if we possess. If you have more than one interpretation of things, if you have overlapping schemes of thought, you get a wider view because it kind of shows you, well, this is the blind spot that this particular language has, and
Play episode from 10:58
Transcript
