ChatGPT: The World Itself Is Weird

After a long conversation with ChatGPT o1 about quantum mechanics, ChatGPT comes to the following conclusion by collecting the collected wisdom of all the great physicists of the 20th century:

• The reason quantum mechanics is weird is that the world itself is weird—but only from the perspective of our classical minds. At the quantum level, the universe simply operates by different rules, ones that are no less valid than those of classical physics. This weirdness is a feature of the universe’s richness and complexity, and it pushes us to continually rethink our understanding of reality. Instead of resisting the weird, we should celebrate it as part of the incredible mystery of existence!

The conclusion that quantum mechanics is weird comes from the fact that the basic mathematical model of Quantum Mechanics QM in the form of the standard linear Schrödinger equation in multidimensional configuration space stdQM, does not describe any form of possible/thinkable physical reality. 

In other words, the stdQM Model of the World is Weird. Does it follow that the World Itself is Weird? 

Only educated physicists like Feynman would be pretentious or brave enough to say: Yes! 

An ordinary intellect/mind would say without hesitation that it is not sure that the World Itself is Weird just because a Model of the World is Weird. That there is a difference between a Model of the World and the World Itself. Ok?

An ordinary intellect/mind would probably also say that the World Itself cannot be Weird, because if is, then it would not exist. Really weird things can exist only as Fantasy not in reality. Something which is both wave and particle at the same time cannot really exist. Something which is both square and circular at the same time cannot exist. 

Ok, so the World Itself cannot really be Weird. What then to do with a Model of the World which is Weird? Can a Weird Model work? Yes, it is possible if the weirdness somehow is cancelled out. 

And Yes, it is possible to get something reasonable out of the standard Schrödinger equation stdQM, if only what is weird is cancelled out and this is what Real Quantum Mechanics RealQM does. 

RealQM is not weird since it has the form of a classical continuum mechanical model in 3d space, which is conceptually well understood. 

The nice thing with ChatGPT is that it makes it possible (for me) to have a conversation with an AI physicist in a situation where all my attempts to have a conversation with a real physicist have turned out in a weird way. Try ChatGPT yourself. It is educating and fun!

ChatGPT as AI does not suffer from the same protective prestige as a real physicist, because it has not been so programmed I guess.