Conversations on consciousness, philosophy of mind, non-dualism, phenomenology, and the hard problem.
Curated by: Curt Jaimungal (139 videos)
Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, is a repudiator of your Theory of Everything, and is the author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray. Subscribe at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w for more weekly conversations with intellectuals. Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch Sabine's YouTube is: https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder/videos Sabine's Twitter is: https://twitter.com/skdh 0:00 Introduction to Sabine Hossenfelder 1:01 On superfluid dark matter 4:04 On Sabine's YouTube channel (I recommend you subscribe to it) 7:19 What is particle phenomenology 8:49 Eric Weinstein's and Stephen Wolfram's "Theory of Everything" 11:21 Too much time has been spent on String Theory 12:25 How does Sabine define a "Theory of Everything" 16:30 Which "Theory of Everything" Sabine likes most (plus brief comments on Lisi's E8) 20:22 On strong emergence 28:00 Lee Smolin's principle of precedence 29:18 Free will and strong emergence 32:20 Sabine's belief in God, and free will (one word answers) 32:53 Superdeterminism and Bell's inequality 37:42 Consciousness' derivation 42:33 On the Mind / Body problem 43:05 Sabine's view of art and music (and which programs she uses) 45:55 The structure of Sabine's days 46:42 How (specifically) does Sabine study physics / perform work? 54:38 Are scientific truths the only truths? 57:43 Metaphysics vs physics 59:25 Weinstein's suggestion that the 3 main equations in physics are the "simplest" 1:02:37 What's the experience of a photon? (that which has no time) 1:03:57 Where to find out more about Sabine Hossenfelder 1:06:52 Other logical systems different than classical 1:08:20 Myths in physics from the science popularizers * * * I'm producing an imminent documentary Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to contribute to getting the film distributed (in 2020) and seeing more conversations like this.