Seth Paskin
speaker
1,271 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Seth Paskin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We want to know whether the universe simply happens to be what it is for no reason.
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Or whether there is power behind it that makes it what it is.
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So this is a a is there meaning in the world question?
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And it's the kind of question that is already presuming the answer that in that is I wrote on the side, you know, do we want to know this?
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Because I'm not so sure that that's actually true.
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But he gives another an analogy saying
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If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe, no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house.
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So there's part of that that's clever that is making a distinction between the designer and the designed, right?
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That seem that
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If that is partially right and feels very, very logical.
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But it to me, what it also does is it frames the kind of answer that.
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many parts of science are already doing, right?
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There are a solution
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That comes out of something like emergence or self-organization.
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Is they would say, well, yes, of course, you need to see how the organization arises out of the form of the constituents.
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And that kind of answer is actually true for matter.
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You can describe how matter is arranged based upon the constituents of the matter.
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It is encoded in the conventional laws of nature.
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The way in which the matter is arranged.
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Yeah.
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