Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon explore the strange forces that surround us and create our reality.

The Pareto Principle

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

 

Quantum paradoxes.

Wave-Particle Duality

Superposition

Nonlocality

Decoherence

 

What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis? 

"The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is the theory that an individual's thoughts and actions are determined by the language or languages that individual speaks. The strong version of the hypothesis states that all human thoughts and actions are bound by the restraints of language, and is generally less accepted than the weaker version, which says that language only somewhat shapes our thinking and behavior. "

The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality

“Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don’t need to know. And that’s pretty much all of reality, whatever reality might be.”

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