Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
[Auxiliary] Norman Wildberger interviews Curt Jaimungal on Free Will, Physics, Mathematics, and UFOs
Tue, 08 Mar 2022
Norman Wildberger's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/njwildberger Patreon for Curt: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal 0:40 Introducing Curt 1:44 Background on film making and maths / physics 3:40 Curt's film "Better Left Unsaid" 7:50 The rise of intellectual podcasts 9:53 Theories of Everything channel 13:59 Role of Consciousness 16:58 Mathematical, computational and cognitive TOE's 19:46 Landscape of physical TOE's and the Standard Model 24:45 Sociology of physics and string theory 28:35 So many illustrious guests! 32:43 Exceptional objects in math and physics (E8, monster) 36:55 Effective teaching and learning 38:45 The great Free Will debate 47:40 The UFO conundrum 53:50 A bookmaker / probabilistic approach to uncertainty 58:58 Government policy on UFOs and truth at any cost? 1:02:54 Sociological differences between maths and physics 1:07:59 Are individual TOE being ignored? How about Stephen Wolfram's new physics? 1:11:54 Taking theories of everything too seriously: are there risks? 1:17:50 Moving forward and looking to new episodes and further interesting chats! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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