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He implicitly takes this ahistorical stance and justifies it with a metaphor that comes up frequently in his writing and debates. For example, in Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting, he asks us to imagine a footrace where
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“If a quantum system in a superposed state interacts with another particle, the two become linked into a composite superposition.”
― Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
― Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
“An important advance is that emotion now looms much larger in our understanding of intuitive judgments and choices than it did in the past.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“You cannot know this from conscious experience, of course, but you must accept the alien idea that your actions and your emotions can be primed by events of which you are not even aware.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Notice how I phrased that. It remains meaningful to think of these objects as having wavefunctions. They are, after all, made of quantum objects and so can be expressed as a combination of the corresponding wavefunctions. It’s just that the wavefunctions of distinct states of macroscopic objects, such as a coffee cup being in this place and that place, are not coherent. Quantum coherence is essentially what permits ‘quantumness’.”
― Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
― Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
“The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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