{"id":14993,"date":"2014-05-30T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T11:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14993"},"modified":"2014-05-30T06:10:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T11:10:11","slug":"choprafication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14993","title":{"rendered":"Choprafication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Choprafication:  The act of adding of &#8220;quantum&#8221; to a description to make it sound all science-y and stuff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Swansontea\/status\/464015879659716608\">Me<\/a> (<del datetime=\"2014-05-30T11:07:01+00:00\">no relation<\/del>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2014\/05\/quantum_consciousness_physics_and_neuroscience_do_not_explain_one_another.html\"><em>Quantum<\/em> and <em>Consciousness<\/em> Often Mean <em>Nonsense<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hold degrees in physics and have spent a lot of time learning and teaching quantum mechanics. Nonphysicists seem to have the impression that quantum physics is really esoteric, with those who study it spending their time debating the nature of reality. In truth, most of a quantum mechanics class is lots and lots of math, in the service of using a particle\u2019s quantum state\u2014the bundle of physical properties such as position, energy, spin, and the like\u2014to describe the outcomes of experiments. Sure, there\u2019s some weird stuff and it\u2019s fun to talk about, but quantum mechanics is aimed at being practical (ideally, at least).<\/p>\n<p>Yet the mysterious aspects of quantum physics and consciousness have inspired many people to speculate freely. The worst offenders will even say that because we don\u2019t fully understand either field, they must be related problems. It sounds good at first: We don\u2019t know exactly how some things in quantum physics work, we don\u2019t know exactly how to go from the brain to consciousness, so maybe consciousness is quantum.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this idea? It\u2019s almost certainly wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choprafication: The act of adding of &#8220;quantum&#8221; to a description to make it sound all science-y and stuff &#8211; Me (no relation) Quantum and Consciousness Often Mean Nonsense I hold degrees in physics and have spent a lot of time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-body","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}