Blake Crouch Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. As in Schrödinger’s cat, the famous thought experiment. Imagine a cat, a vial of poison, and a radioactive source in a sealed box. If an internal sensor registers radioactivity, like an atom decaying, the vial is broken, releasing a poison that kills the cat. The atom has an equal chance of decaying or not decaying. It’s an ingenious way of linking an outcome in the classical world, our world, to a quantum-level event.The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests a crazy thing: before the box is opened, before observation occurs, the atom exists in superposition—an undetermined state of both decaying and not decaying. Which means, in turn, that the cat is both alive and dead. And only when the box is opened, and an observation made, does the wave function collapse into one of two states. In other words, we only see one of the possible outcomes. For instance, a dead cat. And that becomes our reality. But then things get really weird.Is there another world, just as real as the one we know, where we opened the box and found a purring, living cat instead?The Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics says yes. That when we open the box, there’s a branch. One universe where we discover a dead cat. One where we discover a live one. And it’s the act of our observing the cat that kills it—or lets it live. And then it gets mind-fuckingly weird. Because those kinds of observations happen all the time. Dark Matter

2. Doesn’t feel like intelligence itself is the answer. It terrifies me to think of a world where we have all the same problems, a billion less friends, and everyone thinks they’re smart enough to be infallible. Upgrade

3. I had extraordinary dreams, and an ordinary mind. Upgrade

4. Is déjà vu actually the specter of false timelines that never happened but did, casting their shadows upon reality? Recursion

5. It's just a product of our evolution the way we experience reality and time from moment to moment. How we differentiate between past, present, and future. But we're intelligent enough to be aware of the illusion, even as we live by it, and so, in moments like this——when I can imagine you sitting exactly where I am, listening to me, loving me, missing me——it tortures us. Because I'm locked in my moment, and you're locked in yours. Recursion

6. When a person dies, he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past... All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever. -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five Recursion