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“There are several ways to represent this object, but one common way to represent this object is with a mathematical object called a wave function, okay? Quantum mechanics uses these wave functions to…” (David Albert)

“So there's some issues at the quantum level that I'm not an expert on by any means, but for instance wave-particle duality, is something like light — does it consist of photons, particles of light,…” (Richard Polt)

“And one attempt to explain that was in terms of memory pictured as a wax block that can take impressions, and so maybe false judgments happen when you're perceiving something and you try to fit it…” (Richard Polt)

“maybe, of these problems is the wax block model of memory.” (Richard Polt)

“if you look at ancient artworks, you'll sometimes see these ancient Greeks and Romans working on a laptop. And it's not really a laptop but it's a, it's a hinged wax tablet. And on each surface there…” (Richard Polt)

“historical story nicely is a book by Adam Becker called What Is Real, which tells this story about Bohm and tells lots of interesting stories about the histories, the history of these discussions…” (David Albert)

“The question has an answer. The electron is here, okay? But the suggestion here is that when this white electron passes through a hardness box, the hardness box puts it into some condition, okay, in…” (David Albert)

“For instance, Whitehead in the 20th century developed what he called a process philosophy that's focused on events rather than things or object. So, there are no things. There are only motions,…” (Richard Polt)

“so on and so forth to push back against this a little bit, to try to see what it would be like, to try to experiment with what it would be like. to attempt to construct the kind of realistic” (David Albert)

“Even if it's a stillbirth, it's real. But a theoretical baby, an idea may be just a wind egg as he puts it, an infertile egg, or a nothing, a nothing burger, we would say. So Socrates praises this,…” (Richard Polt)

“enumerating the grid points. So, I'm gonna start at the origin here, and I'm gonna follow a certain windy path. I go like this, and then I double back this way. You notice how I'm going through all…” (Joel David Hamkins)

“Every single chocolate will be eaten at some stage. So, after infinitely many steps, the glutton will have eaten every single chocolate. So, the glutton has a winning strategy in the chocolatier's…” (Joel David Hamkins)

“Just to, 153-e and 154-a, which is just interesting to me that, you know, he's talking about colors. And, it does seem very Wittgensteinian, the idea that there is no red, there's only what you see…” (Richard Polt)

“central psyche that's, that's actually having these perceptions and integrating them, and he says, "It would be a strange thing if there were a number of senses sitting inside us as if we were wooden…” (Richard Polt)

“what happens is that the world splits into, into a multiplicity of different universes. In each of these universes, there's an observer who's unaware of the other one. Okay? The structure of the” (David Albert)