Jeff Tollaksen - What is Causation?

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  • Опубликовано: 27 окт 2024

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  • @umblnc
    @umblnc 3 года назад +9

    This is exactly how I would explain something at the exam, that I didn't learn and that don't have the slightest idea how it actually works.

  • @starmanstarman576
    @starmanstarman576 5 лет назад +17

    Now that clearly passes over my head.
    Who else with me ?

  • @stephenlawrence4821
    @stephenlawrence4821 2 года назад +1

    Well, if we assume determinism then of course dependent connections work both ways in time. So say in the future A is going to happen. Then it follows that if B were going to happen instead, the past prior to that would be different so that would be determined instead.
    The physicists are assuming we have free will, and usually not even realising it.
    It's very sad that they are not determined to see the obvious. I'm sure progress would be much quicker if the free will assumption was ditched.

  • @diogenes7419
    @diogenes7419 5 лет назад +18

    I can feel something gone over right over my head..

    • @furbs9999
      @furbs9999 5 лет назад +2

      Yer, i heard it too. Whoosh. Most of the time i understand enough but not today.

    • @constructivist6
      @constructivist6 5 лет назад +3

      Diogenes, perhaps someone was standing in your light.

    • @ronjohnson4566
      @ronjohnson4566 5 лет назад

      i see your point, but no it wasn't a someone standing in my light. I just put my hand up to get the sun out of my eyes. It was a weak measurement because every time I moved my hand closer or farther away, my weak measurements did or didn't work to get the sun out of my eyes. New axiom; if you put your hand up to block the sun from your eyes there are many ways to do it. What does this say about causation, one way to block the sun is to put your hand (or least you think its your hand) between you and the sun light. There are many correct answers. Not just one.

    • @danieleniccoli3871
      @danieleniccoli3871 4 года назад +1

      results in the present, of this type are caused by events in the future once the those events in the future occur. However the causal arrow does not go both ways, so we can't gain information of future events. Downward causation is used to explain time-like events

    • @catherinemoore9534
      @catherinemoore9534 3 года назад +1

      @@danieleniccoli3871 that's the best explanation of the video.... Thanks

  • @arulross70
    @arulross70 5 лет назад +5

    can someone send me to a video which explains this fascinating concept more thoroughly

    • @arulross70
      @arulross70 5 лет назад

      Ok i just understood it jeeeeez

    • @ivocanevo
      @ivocanevo 3 года назад

      Don't try to watch his presentation though. This video explains it 10x better.

  • @dmitrychirkov4206
    @dmitrychirkov4206 3 года назад +1

    To whose, who woul watch it in the future - this is the way I interpret it:
    you make a weak measurement of some stuff a few times
    you get weird irregularities and mistakes on the way
    you make a strong measurement of the same stuff
    with this you create the causation for those irregularities and mistakes from before

  • @KaiseruSoze
    @KaiseruSoze 5 лет назад +5

    Causality in physics is usually a newtonian concept. In modern physics, interaction replaces causality.
    And you don't get backwards causality with physical time. Only with parametric time.

    • @ferdinandkraft857
      @ferdinandkraft857 5 лет назад

      Causality is well-defined in relativity.

    • @ferdinandkraft857
      @ferdinandkraft857 5 лет назад +1

      Isn't the quantum eraser an example of backwards causality?

    • @eyebee-sea4444
      @eyebee-sea4444 5 лет назад +1

      Interaction is a type of causality. How can it replace it?
      What is parametric time? And what is the difference to physical time?

  • @jimbeam4736
    @jimbeam4736 5 лет назад +2

    You construct the present backwards from the future - that´s a very cool thought. But a certain present condition doesn´t force a certain future condition so there is no causality in that direction but a certain future condition forces the necessary present condition. Looks like normal quantum mechanics as you only know the (present) condition of a system, after you measured it.

  • @weirdsciencetv4999
    @weirdsciencetv4999 2 года назад

    Peter Tse would be interesting to talk to about his ideas on causality

  • @DrSigma-hr3re
    @DrSigma-hr3re 5 лет назад +4

    It seems like causation from the Newtonian perspective modified to fit Copenhagen Interpretation. Not sure if I'm convinced that is something truly profound. The act of observation is necessary to get information about a system. How does a system evolve over time in the situation where none of its events are observed? Since science is based on experiment and observation, how can we truly know the nature of the universe in an undisturbed state? We are back to old Parmenides again.

  • @KeithStrang
    @KeithStrang 5 лет назад +2

    This reminds me of Sherlock Homes or other stories of great detectives. When the usual detectives can’t solve the case, the great one comes in and solves the crime with the identical data, they are just sampling it differently/using a different perspective. The data was always there, the observer did not create anything new. The observer just post processed it a different way and got a different result.

  • @edga69
    @edga69 4 года назад +1

    Who did this research? Is there a clearer explanation?

  • @thejackanapes5866
    @thejackanapes5866 5 лет назад +2

    Sounds like transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is one that fascinates me.
    Coupled with block-universe / b-theory of time - the future is already there. We can only be uncertain about what it is due to entropy.
    Maybe "causality" is "any relationship between differentiations in a gradient" or something, and what it's like for some kind of "read only" information processor to process them (i.e. our brains, or some part of our brains 'reading' space-time as they "fall" down an entropy gradient, or something).

  • @dmitryalexandersamoilov
    @dmitryalexandersamoilov 10 месяцев назад

    Causation is the way possibility itself is organized.

  • @reenatai75
    @reenatai75 5 лет назад +4

    I didn't understand

  • @vinm300
    @vinm300 2 года назад

    2:32 "Discoveries his group has made " ?
    Weak measurement : This process was described first by: Mensky;[9][10] Belavkin;[11][12] Barchielli, Lanz, Prosperi;[13] Barchielli;[14] Caves;[15][16] Caves and Milburn.[17] Later on Howard Carmichael[18] and Howard M. Wiseman[19] also made important contributions to the field

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 2 года назад

    Does backward causality allow anticipation of future (post prepare?), and from anticipation of future to act or plan in the present?

  • @babbar123
    @babbar123 5 лет назад +4

    I see his point but I still think we know too little to get the entire picture.

  • @vjnt1star
    @vjnt1star 5 лет назад +1

    I am not sure I understood how you go from there is -1 particule to hence the backward causation

    • @Falkdr
      @Falkdr 5 лет назад

      I don't know the mathematics but I understood it this way: Let's assume you say "tomorrow, I'll stand on the moon" then this is VERY unlikely (uncertainty). But in a course of events, somehow you make it happen and all that leads to it makes sense tomorrow. But today, you can't say for certain, that it would happen.
      It seems it's really nothing that special, he's talking about but I would really know more about this weak measurement.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 4 дня назад

    gravity contracts classic reality from past to present? could dark energy expand quantum reality from future to present (backward causation)?

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 4 дня назад

    in classic reality, when throw something up in air, comes back down to earth? maybe in quantum reality, when throw something down it pops back up?

  • @profzen1
    @profzen1 5 лет назад +4

    Kuhn decides nodding is best response.

    • @eyebee-sea4444
      @eyebee-sea4444 5 лет назад

      Yes, I notice a growing dissatisfaction. Sometimes (in other discussions) he responses with a cynical comment instead. Especially when the counterpart isn't honest, dances around the question. Kuhn REALLY wants answers, but this many discussions with all the intellectuals doesn't seem to bring him closer to the truth.

  • @martinrhoads7691
    @martinrhoads7691 2 года назад

    Is what he is implying is the past, present, and future exists at the same instant, and affect each other simultaneously.

  • @vorador4365
    @vorador4365 5 лет назад +3

    Is this new material or recycled?

  • @notanemoprog
    @notanemoprog Год назад

    There is no "backwards causality". PERIOD.

  • @youtubemoderationtaskforce5583
    @youtubemoderationtaskforce5583 5 лет назад +3

    I’m in no way an expert but this sounds like a pedantic rambling of (we retrospectively interpreted the original past measurement differently in the future due to this concept we call weak measurement.)

    • @andrewh5138
      @andrewh5138 3 года назад

      A lot of quantum mechanical stuff sounds that way.

  • @wates123
    @wates123 Месяц назад

    So is he claiming determinism at the Quantum level because when you do your post evaluation, there's only 1 way things could have manifested. Because of this, this is true for the next post evaluation experiment and so on. So in this chain, there's only 1 possible chain. Someone help me with a mistake if I've made one

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 3 года назад

    Is the future happening in quantum wave function that effects classic reality now? Could the quantum wave function pull classic reality into the present?

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 2 года назад

    Is backward causality only in quantum fields?

  • @ronjohnson4566
    @ronjohnson4566 5 лет назад +3

    so I make a weak measurement. "thats a foot long". then I make 20 weak measurements. Then time passses and we are in the future. I make a strong measurement with a ruler. "that is a foot long according to this ruler". Now the 21 weak measurements suddenly line up to what? Is it, the 21 measurements are now: true, correct, without error. Is this the new world order? The true measurement of a foot is at least 21 different answers. Or did you just use and eraser. I will not hire you to build my new house.

  • @KH4444444444N
    @KH4444444444N 4 года назад

    Society on youtube: watches society on youtube
    me: this video

  • @flatisland
    @flatisland 3 года назад

    so you do many measurements and while doing them what you measure does not make sense each single time. But finally - when you do that ''post-selection" (whatever that means) you come to a point where suddenly all those senseless measurements do make sense.
    at least that's me trying to figure out what he says.

  • @donalmoriarty2074
    @donalmoriarty2074 5 лет назад +2

    Oh dear.... Is this like the delayed choice experiment?

  • @ivocanevo
    @ivocanevo 3 года назад +1

    If you measure the sound of a tree falling in a forest, then it fell in the past.

  • @xspotbox4400
    @xspotbox4400 5 лет назад

    Everything is made of particles, so in principle, entire universe could turn into chaos and reconstruct again to contemporary state. Maybe we should think of causality as branching of some particles, binnded into some form, while nearby particles follow flow of causal effects. When system is disturbed, bonds are broken and form is disintegrated into chaos, but some particles still flow in their path, creating an illusion of causality that is no longer there.

    • @myothersoul1953
      @myothersoul1953 5 лет назад

      Everything is made of waves.

    • @xspotbox4400
      @xspotbox4400 5 лет назад

      @@myothersoul1953 What is waving in what?

    • @myothersoul1953
      @myothersoul1953 5 лет назад

      @@xspotbox4400 Values are changing in a field.
      ruclips.net/video/MO0r930Sn_8/видео.html

  • @samgee5169
    @samgee5169 3 года назад

    Someone needs to explain this better

  • @I_Am_Midnight-i
    @I_Am_Midnight-i 5 лет назад +2

    He's theory is question begging. It also depends on what theory of time you subscribe to.

    • @KH4444444444N
      @KH4444444444N 4 года назад +1

      *His *Ascribe ...Idiot.

    • @urthoperator3126
      @urthoperator3126 3 года назад

      @@KH4444444444N No need to insult...

    • @KH4444444444N
      @KH4444444444N 3 года назад

      @@urthoperator3126 No need to butcher the English Language, either.

  • @catherinemoore9534
    @catherinemoore9534 3 года назад

    I am lost at sea here... My brain hurts.

  • @johnstifter
    @johnstifter 5 лет назад

    Temporal entanglement, damn... I think I see how space time itself is more emergent and how particle entanglement in related to gravity

    • @DanceStarsNYC
      @DanceStarsNYC 5 лет назад

      how does temporal entanglement lead to an emergent space time?

  • @MrJamesdryable
    @MrJamesdryable 5 лет назад +1

    Didn't follow.

  • @Michael-ye4sg
    @Michael-ye4sg 10 месяцев назад

    Not a great explanation. Specific examples, or the use of metaphors, would have helped

  • @PoltysAlex
    @PoltysAlex 5 лет назад

    I think the quantum mechanics probabilistic view about an object(particle) is wrong. The random number could be part of the information contain within the object(particle). That will explain quantum entanglement also. My opinion is that the appearance of random behavior is generated at the source of the object. For example when you generate photons you generate them with random properties. Quantum entanglement is a way to correlate the properties of 2 objects. This guy describes as weak measurement a way to somehow detect that hidden (until measurement) property.

    • @PoltysAlex
      @PoltysAlex 5 лет назад

      @@Armando7654 My view of the Universe is materialistic. However, because I see the Universe as information that evolves according to a quantum algorithm (probabilistic) the idea of a Designer(Creator) is always in my mind.

  • @manta567
    @manta567 2 года назад

    Nice phoney!
    Clear as mud!
    He surely likes hearing himself talk. I also know words!

  • @mortram
    @mortram 2 года назад

    Didn’t seem like he said anything.

  • @kjustkses
    @kjustkses 5 лет назад +1

    You still set the measurement device up in the past in other words. Maybe particles do have consciousness 😳

  • @christophergame7977
    @christophergame7977 Год назад

    It is orthodox to say that quantum mechanics demonstrates a subtle violation of causality. That just shows that they don't understand quantum mechanics. The interest in this topic is rubbish.

  • @totalfreedom45
    @totalfreedom45 5 лет назад

    _The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following:_ The test of all knowledge is experiment. _Experiment is the_ sole judge _of scientific “truth.”_ -Richard Feynman, _The Feynman Lectures on Physics (FLP), the New Millennium Edition, 1 Atoms in Motion, 1-1 Introduction,_ p 1
    _Everything is made of atoms._ That is the key hypothesis. The most important hypothesis in all of biology, for example, is that _everything that animals do, atoms do._ In other words, _there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics._ -Richard Feynman, _The Feynman Lectures on Physics (FLP), the New Millennium Edition, 1 Atoms in Motion, 1-4 Chemical reactions,_ paragraph 11
    💕 ☮ 🌎 🌌

    • @lifewasgiventous1614
      @lifewasgiventous1614 5 лет назад

      That’s not a very good hypothesis though, there a several things we do that atoms don’t do, atoms in so far as we know, don’t have intellect.

  • @masterofkungfu7697
    @masterofkungfu7697 5 лет назад

    Cause Fu

  • @tedgrant2
    @tedgrant2 11 месяцев назад

    God designed and manufactured the world very carefully.
    Yet within a few days it got broken by a woman.
    Big mistake.

  • @winstonchang777
    @winstonchang777 2 года назад

    If you killed your grandfather and succeeded, the, it will follow that he is "become" not your biological grandfather.

  • @rantallion5032
    @rantallion5032 5 лет назад +5

    the most irritating speaker i have heard in a while- perhaps ever. lots of words no substance.

  • @mikel4879
    @mikel4879 3 года назад +1

    Anything is possible when you talk stupidities and justify stupidities with stupidities.

  • @jessrevill1852
    @jessrevill1852 5 лет назад +1

    Nope. Not buying it.

  • @davidchou1675
    @davidchou1675 4 года назад

    lol wut where's pbs when you need 'em....

  • @alcohalic6338
    @alcohalic6338 5 лет назад +1

    What these wise men don't get is that time is just an illusion. consciousness creates the illusion of time.IE a experience. Ergo, there is no causality paradox.

  • @nyttag7830
    @nyttag7830 3 года назад +1

    It was all nonsense.

  • @Chris-te3ce
    @Chris-te3ce 5 лет назад

    First like and comment yes!

  • @cmarqz1
    @cmarqz1 5 лет назад

    Bollocks!

  • @chrisc1257
    @chrisc1257 5 лет назад

    Liars.

  • @notanemoprog
    @notanemoprog Год назад

    GOBBLEDYGOOK!