There's a reason why he's famous. That reason is not that he's actually insightful or correct with his cut-up dadaist nonsense quotes. It's because he's very go

There's a reason why he's famous. That reason is not that he's actually insightful or correct with his cut-up dadaist nonsense quotes. It's because he's very good at acting like a guru. "Whatever you tell Deepak Chopra, he responds as if he knew in advance what you were going to say." I love how he thinks he's smart for predicting people will treat him like a nut after he acts like a total nut for decades. When a field is largely pre-scientific like consciousness, lots of "gurus" are drawn in who try to substitute flashy language and bold, general statements for actual rigor and reproducible predictions. The state of the study of consciousness today almost guarantees by definition that there is no objective observation or falsifiable claims, and reproduction of someone's experiment is very difficult in any way that proves anything meaningful. Chopra just excels in saying some unnecessarily terse and ambiguous statement that will naturally appeal to one's pareidolia, causing people to think it's some incredibly deep and multifaceted wisdom when in fact it can be replicated with a random word bank: http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/ http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/ The whole quantum woo crowd is really saddening. I mean obviously quantum effects have something to do with it, in as much as quantum effects have something to do with everything. But when you take some barely-understood, bleeding-edge physics and apply it to a horrifically complex and almost completely unknown field like the origin of consciousness, stating that this is where your soul or free will or whatever comes from, you can be ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED that this person is so full of shit their eyes are turning brown. Quantum weirdness™ does not exist solely to prop up people's baseless spiritual beliefs. Be very wary of people who twist physics in to such convenient and anthro-centric ways.