Edward Frenkel

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love · 10 Apr 2023 podcast

So we should pay attention to that.

But of course, it's not just self-imposed imitation.

Unfortunately, in this case, there is a big issue of education.

So a lot of people are not aware of it through no fault of their own, because they were never properly taught that.

Because our system is broken, education system is broken, especially in math.

So where do we get information?

You get information from our scientists who actually write popular books and so on, which is a great...

great thing that they do.

But a lot of scientists somehow, when it comes to explaining the laws of physics, they're doing a fantastic job talking about this phenomenon, for instance, double-slit experiment and things like that.

But then, you know, interviewed by a science magazine about free will and so on, they revert back to 19th century physics as if those developments actually never happened.

So to me, this is single most fascinating

important issue in our popular science.

The idea that somehow there is this world out there, but it has nothing to do with me.

So I can revel in the intricacies of these particles and their interactions,

But completely ignore what implications this has for my own relationship to physical reality, to my own life.

Because we haven't been taught properly.

So actually tools are there.

For instance,

I think, well, here I have to say my conviction is that everybody knows, in the heart of hearts, everybody knows that there is that, there is something ineffable, there is something

And in fact, you know, somehow immediately I feel that, you know, the impulse to quote somebody on this because as if my own opinion doesn't count.

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