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Magnus (2023-04-14 13:39:58), category: cosmos
Hello Ove

Jim Tucker Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Thinks that quantum mechanics can prove reincarnation.

Here is link to the discussion. Starts from about 36:37

https://youtu.be/jG4a8f46w2E

Could this be reasonable?

Cheers Magnus
No, at least not the way you phrase the question. By itself, quantum mechanics can’t prove much of anything beyond itself, that’s not how it works. To scientifically “prove” something, you need observable evidence of it (and even then you can never prove anything with 100% certainty, because there’s always a chance of flaws in your evidence). That is, evidence is used to prove the correctness of quantum mechanics, not the other way around. Once proven, it can obviously be used for technological applications such as making computer chips and whatnot, but it can’t by itself prove something bigger than itself, much less metaphysical claims like this. So, to prove reincarnation, it would make sense to use data such as near-death experiences and people remembering their past lives in a verifiable way, but quantum mechanics as a theory won’t help you. If anything, it’d be an obstacle: you’d have to either show that reincarnation doesn’t contradict quantum mechanics, or if it does, that there’s something wrong with quantum mechanics. (Fortunately, quantum mechanics has nothing to say about it, so there’s no inherent contradiction between these things. I suspect that’s also what he’s trying to say in the video. QM doesn’t contradict it, it just doesn’t help you.)