Jiang interprets Wigner's friend as showing that the wave function collapses for the experimenter but not for others until they participate in the reality themselves.
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Jiang interprets Wigner's friend as showing that the wave function collapses for the experimenter but not for others until they participate in the reality themselves.
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Key Notes
The Mona Lisa shows that art becomes alive only when the viewer participates; its expression changes through engagement rather than static observation.
Jiang says Athenian theaters were designed for resonance, performers had to project slowly, and audiences memorized lines, making performance both audible and participatory.
Jiang's classroom analogy says a collective ritual exists only when everyone participates in it; a sleeper denies the collective experience is real.
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"And what Strödinger teaches us is that when the box is unopened, we can never know the state of the cat. It's only when..."
"We have to open the box ourselves in order to see if the cat is alive or dead, okay? But what if this person..."
"the Louvre, to stand in line just so they can spend 10 seconds to look at this picture, okay? What makes this picture remarkable..."
"So what is this saying? What this is saying is the art is alive if you engage with it. Okay? Art is not meant..."
"Okay, so that's a great question about acoustics. We call this acoustics. So how the theater was designed was like this, okay? You have..."
"that I want to kill that person why would I want to do that what's my logic it's disrespectful of what okay it's disrespectful..."
"yeah it's not a classroom it's not real this discussion is not real it's pointless you understand so that's what's happening here they're malembo..."
"...you actually signed up for the draft. And starting in December, participation in the draft will be automatic, meaning that if you're between 18..."
"...has generated in the past 30, 40 years because of its participation in consumer capitalism. Okay? But unfortunately, we've now reached a point where..."
"...enter this war and they will suffer tremendously because of their participation. All right. Again, the Al -Azhar Mosque will be destroyed. Okay? And..."
"...okay socialism okay so a more redistribution of wealth um greater participation in the political system and the limitations of the"
"So this is a deeply patriarchal society. All right? All right. Participation in long -distance trade, gift exchange, and a new set of codes..."
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