Alex O'Connor
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2,073 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 May
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organisms like diversify and become complex and that's great but it is a description it's a description of what happens and if you as feinman says if you really do keep following that why question you'll get down to some quite foundational questions which it's less controversial to say science will not be able to explain
Confidence meaning with faith.
I think if you speak to most of those people, they will at least ostensibly say, but I'm open to having my mind changed.
Particularly scientists.
I mean, the whole thing about science is that it's open for correction.
No scientist believes that we've completed science.
Scientists are very much like one day they hope that Einstein will be proved completely wrong because it's exciting and it would like sharpen what we understand about the universe.
You know what I mean?
And so like, I don't think anybody has that kind of confidence that they've got it all correct.
But I think there is a confidence in the method.
And fair enough.
Have a confidence in the scientific method because it's great.
And again, I love science.
I'm not trying to insult it or anything.
I'm just saying be very precise about what it's doing and what it's not.
And I think we could avoid a lot of needless debate if we understand exactly the parameters of each of our disciplines.
Disciplines interact and they merge and stuff.
But if you're talking about mathematical models,
There are things that mathematical models just can't do.
And if you're talking about like thought experiments and philosophy, there are things that thought experiments can't do.
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