Zak and Derek discuss nothing less than the fundamental nature of reality. They start with the arguments made in the Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen paper from 1935, which were then tackled by John Bell in 1964 with Bell’s Theorem and Bell inequalities.

References:

The original Bell paper (1964): https://cds.cern.ch/record/111654/files/vol1p195-200_001.pdf

The original EPR paper (1935): http://www.drchinese.com/David/EPR.pdf

Bohr’s response to EPR (1935): http://cds.cern.ch/record/1060284/files/PhysRev.48.696.pdf

Bohm’s physics textbook. Specifically, page 29, and Chapter 5 section 3, and Chapter 22 Section 19. (1951): https://books.google.com/books?id=hEHCAgAAQBAJ

David Mermin’s paper (1985): http://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/~maltoni/PHY1222/mermin_moon.pdf

David Mermin talk at Berkeley (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta09WXiUqcQ

Tim Maudlin’s talk “What Bell Did” (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg5z_zeZP60

Bell’s Theorem in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (good historical overview): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bell-theorem/

GHZ (3-particle) experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHZ_experiment

Bell’s Theorem in popular Youtube channels:

Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvK-od647c

Through the Looking Glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-s3q9wlLag

MinutePhysics & 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs

3Blue1Brown & MinutePhysics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzRCDLre1b4

Physics Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6WxIblKVZI

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(Note: At about 46:40, Derek says “This now gets at the Schrodinger’s Cat problem, which was a reply to the EPR and Bohm papers,” but should have said “EPR and Bohr papers”.)