Edward Frenkel

That, yeah, fake it till you make it.

But that's like, that's what humans do.

Yes, we do that, but not all the time.

So, and that is debatable because also I speak from my own experience.

And that's where the first person perspective comes in.

The subjective view.

I cannot prove to you, for instance, or anyone else that there are certain moments in my life where I am genuine.

I am pure, so to speak, when it's not faking it.

But I do have a tremendous...

a certainty of it.

And that's a subjective certainty.

Now, I am, as a scientist, I'm also trained to give more credibility to objective arguments that are things that can be reproduced, things that I can demonstrate, that I can show.

But as I get older, as I get more mature, hopefully, I'm starting to question why I am not giving as much

credibility to my subjective understanding of the world, the first-person perspective, when actually modern science has already sold on that.

Quantum mechanics has shown unambiguously that the observer is always involved in the observation.

Likewise, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, to me, show how essential

is the observer of a mathematical theory.

For one thing, that's the one who chooses the axioms.

And we can talk about this in more detail.

Likewise, Einstein's relativity where