Experiments
We review briefly a number of physical experiments that have profound implications for human freedom, values, and communication of ideas. We also suggest some simple psychological experiments that could shed light on the workings of the Cogito model of the mind and the Sum model of knowledge creation and communication.
Quantum Uncertainty
  • Two-Slit Experiment
  • Einstein Podolsky Rosen
  • Bell's Theorem
Entropy
  • Perfume Bottle
  • Gibbs Paradox
  • The Dark Night Sky
Measurement
  • Collapse of the Wave Function
  • Schrödinger's Cat
Perception
  • Gestalt
  • Phi - the illusion of continuity
  • Cocktail Party Effect
  • Eavesdropping Ideas
  • Visual field suggestions
  • Libet's Time Delay - measuring micro > macro
Eight experimental observations, with philosophical significance, that you can make yourself
  • Andromeda galaxy - path integral single photons, older than humanity, yet now!
  • Brownian motion - see random motions
  • Cosmic rays - see source of genetic mutations
  • Geiger counter - hear unpredictable events
  • Ice crystals - large scale structures
  • Soap/water/air bubbles - symmetric order from liquid
  • Oil/water membranes - symmetric cell progenitor
  • Spectral lines - atoms do not wear out
  • Stars and planets are spherical
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