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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They cannot provide empirical proof of various phenomena.

They can't provide scientific evidence for the Big Bang, that kind of stuff.

But likewise, I think that the scientific method can't describe certain foundational aspects of reality and instead presuppose them.

I would, of course, encourage people to recognize there's lots of room to maneuver here.

And I think that's one of the things that I'm trying to do.

And it kind of splits people, especially when I talk about either consciousness or I talk about the nature of science.

It splits people.

There's kind of three responses to the science stuff.

Some people go, that's a load of nonsense.

Of course, science explains things.

And then I have to spend a bit of time really drilling down what they mean by explain.

in the Feynman sense.

Other people say, this is really interesting.

Yeah, cool.

I'd never thought about it that way.

That's great.

That's exciting.

And some people sort of say, yeah, science doesn't explain in that sense.

Like description is the same thing as, they just sort of say it's like trivially true.

It's not a very profound observation, but it has sort of some profound implications.

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