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the channel but with the summer of math

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exposition contest which for those of

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you who are unfamiliar is less of a

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contest and more of an ethos to create

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mathematical explainer videos

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collectively during the same time period

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i'm a huge huge fan of grant sanderson

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the person behind three blue one brown

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and the summer of math exposition

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contest and thought well since this

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channel theories of everything is about

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physics and consciousness studies why

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not do a similar contest but on those

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topics instead a few weeks ago i emailed

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grant just to not step on any toes so to

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speak and he said go for it so today i'm

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announcing the physics and consciousness

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explications contest essentially it's a

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place and a period for you to submit

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your video explainer of a physics

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phenomenon or of a consciousness

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phenomenon or theory we'll go into

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exactly what that means shortly and

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brilliant to similarly come on board

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with one thousand dollars to give to

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each one of the top five winners that is

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five thousand divided among five i'll

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make a video with the top explainer

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videos of course that's extremely

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subjective and so i'll be supplementing

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that with a playlist inventorying each

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of the entries so what's the point of

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all of this well number one it's not to

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have winners it's to have more

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disquisitions on topics that don't have

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readily digestible tutorials out there

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at least not publicly number two it's to

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give a nudge to you or to someone you

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know who you want to share this with who

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but is unsure perhaps the scant

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incentive of being recognized with views

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or recognized financially with the prize

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number three the top comments on the

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three blue one brown youtube video about

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the contest is something that i

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resonated with blar goner this user said

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that it's unfortunate that the more

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advanced videos which explicitly assumed

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some prerequisite knowledge got down

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voted and flagged as being unclear not

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explaining jargon etc despite such

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entries indeed being allowed by the

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general guidelines in the future

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while in podcast form much can be

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traversed quickly much concepts verbally

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like to see created a video that you

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style that you wish existed number two

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description as well as you can just

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discord toe that is t-o-e but on to some

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examples what is yang mills theory how

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does the etia singer index theorem

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manifold and why is the symplectic creed

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e8 lattice or you can take some theory

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of everything that exists so string

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it be okay if i took some voice clips of

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own narration some people in the toe

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this is simply to have more explications

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not exactly simple simple the incorrect

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consciousness no using the word quantum

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incorrectly use the words that they

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contest please stick to equations

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precision and logical rigor and when i

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wavy but you understand what i mean good

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luck and again if you have questions go

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particularly wonderful