Unmaking Sense

Episode 13.22: Conceptual Entropy

Once we see that entropy is a measure of deficit, we can immediately extend the notion to concepts themselves and see that when we have things still to learn things still to understand our conceptual entropy is high but when we learn them our conceptual entropy falls. Of course overall entropy must increase but at a conceptual level we can still learn things and we do. 

Episode 13.21: How entropy decreases

Entropy can decrease locally but not globally; the total entropy of a closed system cannot decrease but the entropy of a part of it can. Otherwise there would be no order, no life.

Episode 13.20: Entropy as a Measure of Deficit

Integrating the concept of entropy in thermodynamics, classical and quantum information theory and then extending it to a new class: conceptual entropy as a measure of deficit in concepts or understanding.

Episode 13.19: Quantum Information and Entropy

Working towards a reconceptualisation of entropy that brings thermodynamics, classical and quantum information under one conceptual umbrella. Boiling kettles, playing snooker and measuring quantum states all come together.

Episode 13.18: Quantum Entanglement

Why analogy often confuses when used to explain quantum processes. Fools rush in …

Episode 13.17: The Environment as Witness

Why the world can monitor itself and govern its own evolutionary trajectory without any help from human consciousness.

Episode 13.16: Quantum Collapse as Fiction

Quantum collapse is not what we think.

Episode 13.14: Why the world seems objective.

If the whole universe is quantum, why is our experience of it classical? The answer lies in the aspects of the world that are persistent under decoherence.

Episode 13.13: Quantum Entanglement.

Confirming Bell’s inequality violation using IBM’s quantum hardware and Qiskit. The quantum world is stranger than most people think.

Episode 13.12: Markets and Social Cohesion

If the markets are always right, as we are often assured, what does that tell us about incommunicable knowledge? Knowledge embedded in collectives that no individual can access alone? Feeling our way towards quantum theory.