Eric Weinstein

I see those spheres.

What brings you to that?

Do you know what we think electricity and magnetism are?

No.

Jamie, could I ask you to find a Faraday tensor?

A sphere is an abstraction that's going to be the solution to many different problems.

If I ask you to give me the maximum possible volume with the minimum possible area...

I'm gonna get a sphere.

If I ask you what is the best thing to launch out of an old-style cannon and to stack next to it, you're gonna say a sphere.

Then you have a question about is that the same concept of a sphere?

If I take the three-dimensional sphere of unit quaternions, is that the same concept of a sphere?

You are, in part, freely associated

between things that remind you of other things.

Now you have an incredible storehouse of things between your ears that you know to associate with.

And your brain is like, I mean, in part, it's like if you think about the totality of your brain, it's like a Ferrari engine and a Volkswagen.

The Volkswagen chassis is not capable of supporting something else that you're doing really well.

And so what you're constantly doing, as far as I can tell.

So the chassis being education, formal education.

It's not just that.

I mean, it's in part.