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Thomas Campbell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1227 total appearances

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

It turns out you don't need mathematics for good science. What you need for good science is logic. Mathematics is simply one form of logic. It's the logic of quantity. That's it. That's mathematics. All of mathematics is just the logic of quantity. And there's really not even that many, what do you call them, lemmas or propositions. It's just a few.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

It turns out you don't need mathematics for good science. What you need for good science is logic. Mathematics is simply one form of logic. It's the logic of quantity. That's it. That's mathematics. All of mathematics is just the logic of quantity. And there's really not even that many, what do you call them, lemmas or propositions. It's just a few.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

It turns out you don't need mathematics for good science. What you need for good science is logic. Mathematics is simply one form of logic. It's the logic of quantity. That's it. That's mathematics. All of mathematics is just the logic of quantity. And there's really not even that many, what do you call them, lemmas or propositions. It's just a few.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

Like two times three is the same as three times two. There's a couple of those things in arithmetic. All the rest of it is just logic. So you have the logic of quantity because in a computed reality a lot of quantities are computed. That's why physics has the ability to model reality with equations. It's because it's modeled with equations to begin with. Anyhow, you can also have logical models.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

Like two times three is the same as three times two. There's a couple of those things in arithmetic. All the rest of it is just logic. So you have the logic of quantity because in a computed reality a lot of quantities are computed. That's why physics has the ability to model reality with equations. It's because it's modeled with equations to begin with. Anyhow, you can also have logical models.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

Like two times three is the same as three times two. There's a couple of those things in arithmetic. All the rest of it is just logic. So you have the logic of quantity because in a computed reality a lot of quantities are computed. That's why physics has the ability to model reality with equations. It's because it's modeled with equations to begin with. Anyhow, you can also have logical models.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

models, let's say, that have the logic of relationship rather than the logic of quantity. And one of the most famous of those is Darwin's theory of evolution. Notice. And when I say Darwin's theory, I mean Darwin's theory plus everything we've added to it in the last century and a half since Darwin. So evolutionary biology is not real mathematical. It's got the logic of of relationship.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

models, let's say, that have the logic of relationship rather than the logic of quantity. And one of the most famous of those is Darwin's theory of evolution. Notice. And when I say Darwin's theory, I mean Darwin's theory plus everything we've added to it in the last century and a half since Darwin. So evolutionary biology is not real mathematical. It's got the logic of of relationship.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

models, let's say, that have the logic of relationship rather than the logic of quantity. And one of the most famous of those is Darwin's theory of evolution. Notice. And when I say Darwin's theory, I mean Darwin's theory plus everything we've added to it in the last century and a half since Darwin. So evolutionary biology is not real mathematical. It's got the logic of of relationship.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

It sees how this relates to that, relates to the next thing, relates to this, and you find patterns. You say, oh, look at that pattern. I predict that we'll find one of these. And someday somebody will dig it up and there it is. You know, you get one of these. So it makes predictions based on relationships to things. That is also science.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

It sees how this relates to that, relates to the next thing, relates to this, and you find patterns. You say, oh, look at that pattern. I predict that we'll find one of these. And someday somebody will dig it up and there it is. You know, you get one of these. So it makes predictions based on relationships to things. That is also science.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

It sees how this relates to that, relates to the next thing, relates to this, and you find patterns. You say, oh, look at that pattern. I predict that we'll find one of these. And someday somebody will dig it up and there it is. You know, you get one of these. So it makes predictions based on relationships to things. That is also science.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

I don't think there's any scientist that claims that evolutionary biology isn't a science because it's not mathematical. It's logical. Now mine is the same way as Darwin's. I looked at a lot of things. I spent 35 years trying to piece this together and find out a set of understandings that would answer all the things that I knew as a physicist, you know, the existing facts.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

I don't think there's any scientist that claims that evolutionary biology isn't a science because it's not mathematical. It's logical. Now mine is the same way as Darwin's. I looked at a lot of things. I spent 35 years trying to piece this together and find out a set of understandings that would answer all the things that I knew as a physicist, you know, the existing facts.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

I don't think there's any scientist that claims that evolutionary biology isn't a science because it's not mathematical. It's logical. Now mine is the same way as Darwin's. I looked at a lot of things. I spent 35 years trying to piece this together and find out a set of understandings that would answer all the things that I knew as a physicist, you know, the existing facts.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

And it would solve all the things I knew from spending many, many thousands of hours exploring consciousness from the inside in what you might call an out-of-body state. Exploring consciousness. How does it work? Exploring the paranormal. Why does it work that way? Why is it that sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't? Why does that happen?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

And it would solve all the things I knew from spending many, many thousands of hours exploring consciousness from the inside in what you might call an out-of-body state. Exploring consciousness. How does it work? Exploring the paranormal. Why does it work that way? Why is it that sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't? Why does that happen?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

And it would solve all the things I knew from spending many, many thousands of hours exploring consciousness from the inside in what you might call an out-of-body state. Exploring consciousness. How does it work? Exploring the paranormal. Why does it work that way? Why is it that sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't? Why does that happen?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

Why is it in these conditions it works well and in those it doesn't? What does it have to do with diet? You eat things and you're not as good at it as you were before. What does that have to do with it? So it just takes a long time. That's about 35 years of constantly working on this before I got enough pieces that I put it all together. And the last big piece that I got was that, oh.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2259 - Thomas Campbell

Why is it in these conditions it works well and in those it doesn't? What does it have to do with diet? You eat things and you're not as good at it as you were before. What does that have to do with it? So it just takes a long time. That's about 35 years of constantly working on this before I got enough pieces that I put it all together. And the last big piece that I got was that, oh.