Sir Roger Penrose and Professor Ivette Fuentes analyze the Ron Folman T-cubed experiment and whether the equivalence principle holds in quantum mechanics. They also detail gravity's role in wave function collapse, the existence of gravitons, and cyclic cosmology. SPONSORS: - Thank you Nolah for sponsoring! Click here https://nolahmattress.com/toe and use CODE: TOE to get an extra $50 off your mattress. - As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe SUPPORT: - Support me on Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe - Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9 - Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 JOIN MY SUBSTACK (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com LISTEN ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e TIMESTAMPS: - 00:00:00 - The Ron Folman Experiment - 00:08:12 - Quantum Equivalence Principle - 00:15:00 - Gravitational Wavefunction Collapse - 00:25:14 - Active vs. Passive Gravity - 00:33:40 - Bose-Einstein Condensate Tests - 00:44:30 - Do Gravitons Exist? - 00:56:02 - Evidence Before the Big Bang - 01:04:11 - Testing Collapse Models LINKS MENTIONED: - Ivette?s Website: https://ivettefuentes.weebly.com/ - Ivette?s Published Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W7-xksIAAAAJ&hl=en - Roger?s Published Papers: https://inspirehep.net/authors/993859 - Human Test: How Predictability, Creativity, And The Quantum Mind Will Redefine Life In The Age Of AI [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/-/he/Human-Test-Predictability-Creativity-Redefine/dp/149308920X - The Equivalence Principle: https://www.britannica.com/science/equivalence-principle - Nikita Nekrasov [TOE]: https://youtu.be/PH0CzN5qspI - Exploring The Unification Of Quantum Theory And General Relativity With A Bose-Einstein Condensate [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.04630 - Jacob Barandes & Manolis Kellis [TOE]: https://youtu.be/MTD8xkbiGis - Observation Of The Quantum Equivalence Principle For Matter-Waves [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14535 - Claudia de Rham [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Ve_Mpd6dGv8 - Markus Aspelmeyer?s Published Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DH7xfEgAAAAJ&hl=en - Hendrik Ulbricht Published Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6d15M50AAAAJ&hl=en - Ron Folman?s Lecture: https://youtu.be/uVN7zapPtvw - Ivette?s Solo Interview [TOE]: https://youtu.be/YWbjI-QsH2E - Roger?s Solo Interview [TOE]: https://youtu.be/iO03t21xhdk - Cumrun Vafa [TOE]: https://youtu.be/kUHOoMX4Bqw - Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8 - Jonathan Oppenheim [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6Z_p3viqW1g - Alexia Lopez?s Published Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PaPfR4sAAAAJ&hl=en - Neil Turok [TOE]: https://youtu.be/ZUp9x44N3uE - Alexia Lopez?s Lecture: https://youtu.be/-zkGk6EPMC8 - A Big Ring On The Sky [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.07591 - The DP Model: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Diosi-Penrose-DP-model-of-gravity-related-wave-function-collapse-a-According-to_fig1_344161033 - Underground Test Of Gravity-Related Wave Function Collapse [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.13490 - Curt?s Talk With Roger On IAI: https://youtu.be/VQM0OtxvZ-Y - Ron Folman?s T Cube Experiment: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.03879 - Carlo Rovelli [TOE]: https://youtu.be/hF4SAketEHY - Fay Dowker [TOE]: https://youtu.be/PgYHEPCLVas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Curt Jaimungal dives into Kierkegaard?s three stages of life?aesthetic, ethical, and religious ? showing how each promises freedom yet traps us in its own way. Through the lens of modern anxiety and constant choice, he explores why the ?leap of faith? isn?t blind irrationality but a way of living with authenticity when reason hits its limits. Sponsors: - As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Timestamps: - 00:00 - Kierkegaard and Faith - 03:16 - The Three Stages - 05:10 - Anti-Helegianism - 10:52 - Self-Examination and "Knowing Thyself" Links mentioned: - The Most Terrifying Philosopher I?ve Encountered: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-most-terrifying-philosopher-ive - Soren Kierkegaard: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/ - Either/Or [Book]: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.504967/page/n125/mode/2up - Michael Sugrue On Kierkegaard: https://youtu.be/SMJc9UMzFSE - Hegelianism: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hegelianism - Max Tegmark [TOE]: https://youtu.be/-gekVfUAS7c - Sir Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/iO03t21xhdk - Curt?s Presentation: https://youtu.be/3_lBPMc6JRY SUPPORT: - Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join - Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal - Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9 - Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 SOCIALS: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Guests do not pay to appear. Theories of Everything receives revenue solely from viewer donations, platform ads, and clearly labelled sponsors; no guest or associated entity has ever given compensation, directly or through intermediaries. #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor Ivette Fuentes makes impossible physics testable, with verified predictions on the Casimir effect and quantum vacuum. Now she's building a "third way" to quantum gravity, a surprisingly simple model that changes both quantum mechanics and relativity instead of forcing one to dominate the other. SPONSORS: - As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe SUPPORT: - Support me on Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe - Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9 - Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 JOIN MY SUBSTACK (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com LISTEN ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e TIMESTAMPS: - 00:00 - A Third Way to Quantum Gravity - 07:35 - Vacuum-Induced Berry Phase - 12:30 - Dynamical Casimir Effect - 19:02 - Stagnation in Physics? - 29:25 - A Third Way to Unification - 38:20 - What is Physics? - 43:43 - What is Entanglement? - 56:11 - Observer-Dependent Entanglement - 1:03:20 - Advice for Students LINKS MENTIONED: - Ivette?s First Appearance [TOE]: https://youtu.be/cUj2TcZSlZc - Ivette?s Published Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W7-xksIAAAAJ&hl=en - Ivette?s Website: https://ivettefuentes.weebly.com/ - Berry Phase: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/mathematics/berry-phase - Maria Violaris [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Iya6tYN37ow - Casimir Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect - Towards Universal Quantum Computation Through Relativistic Motion [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.5619 - SQUID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID - Observation Of The Dynamical Casimir Effect In A Superconducting Circuit [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.4714 - Generating Multimode Entangled Microwaves With A Superconducting Parametric Cavity [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.00083 - Sir Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/iO03t21xhdk - String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY - Felix Finster [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fXzO_KAqrh0 - Jonathan Oppenheim [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6Z_p3viqW1g - Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8 - Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/wrUvtqr4wOs - Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss - Bertlemann?s Socks And The Nature Of Reality [Paper]: https://cds.cern.ch/record/142461/files/198009299.pdf - Perimeter Institute: https://perimeterinstitute.ca/ - Alice Falls Into A Black Hole [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0410172 - Observer Dependent Entanglement [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.2223 - Frederic Schuller [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Bnh-UNrxYZg - Vacuum Induced Spin-1/2 Berry Phase [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0202128 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do physical laws have their specific form? Host Curt Jaimungal shows this question is a philosophical knot, because any "explanation" must itself stand on a law. Sponsors: - As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Timestamps: - 00:00 - Why Physical Laws? - 05:04 - The Justification Problem - 12:14 - The Limits of Explanation Links mentioned: - Wigner?s Classification: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Wigner+classification - Noether?s Theorem: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Noether%27s+theorem - This Is What Energy Actually Is [TOE]: https://youtu.be/hQk9GLZ0Fms - Do Symmetries ?Explain? Conservation Laws? [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.10909 - Max Tegmark [TOE]: https://youtu.be/-gekVfUAS7c - Lee Smolin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/uOKOodQXjhc - Amanda Gefter [TOE]: https://youtu.be/yABPvDJ6Zgs - John Norton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Tghl6aS5A3M - Laws of Physics [Eddy Keming Chen]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03484 - What?s Actually Possible: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-unexamined-in-principle - Eddy Chen & Barry Loewer [TOE]: https://youtu.be/xZnafO__IZ0 - The Package Deal Accounts of Laws and Properties [Paper]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-020-02765-2 - David Deutsch [TOE]: https://youtu.be/vKeWv-cdWkM - Elan Barenholtz & Will Hahn [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Ca_RbPXraDE - Münchhausen Trilemma [Wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma - Jennifer Nagel [TOE]: https://youtu.be/CWZVMZ9Tm7Q - Law Without Law [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01826 - Schrodinger Equation: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Schr%C3%B6dinger+equation - Born Rule: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Born+rule - Enaction of Qbists [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.04230 - Constructor Theory [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.7439 - The Package Deal Account of Laws and Properties [Paper]: https://sites.rutgers.edu/barry-loewer/wp-content/uploads/sites/195/2020/05/Loewer-2020-The-Package-Deal-Account.pdf - Jonathan Pageau [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X3co_AA6yec - The Most Abused Theorem in Math (Godel?s Incompleteness) [TOE]: https://youtu.be/OH-ybecvuEo SUPPORT: - Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join - Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal - Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9 - Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 SOCIALS: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Guests do not pay to appear. Theories of Everything receives revenue solely from viewer donations, platform ads, and clearly labelled sponsors; no guest or associated entity has ever given compensation, directly or through intermediaries. #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose dismantles standard cosmology, arguing the Big Bang wasn't the beginning and quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong. He then connects a real, gravitational wave function collapse to the non-computational nature of consciousness and why today's AI can't truly understand. Sponsors: - Get 50% off Claude Pro, including access to Claude Code, at https://claude.ai/theoriesofeverything - As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Timestamps: - 00:00 - The Big Bang Wasn't The Beginning - 02:14 - Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) - 09:12 - The Collapse Problem - 14:31 - A Feeling of Elation - 24:32 - Gödel and Understanding - 37:32 - Gravitational Collapse - 50:05 - Critique of Modern AI - 57:12 - Black Hole Information "Paradox" - 1:04:15 - Wheeler, Wigner, & Witten - 1:15:04 - Richard Feynman in Poland - 1:20:25 - Libet's Timing of Consciousness - 1:32:49 - Three Worlds, Three Mysteries - 1:44:14 - Why Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong Links mentioned: - Stuart Hameroff [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0_bQwdJir1o - Classical Theory [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9409195 - Rebecca Goldstein [TOE]: https://youtu.be/VkL3BcKEB6Y - The Emperor?s New Mind [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Emperors-New-Mind-Concerning-Computers/dp/0192861980 - Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Fashion-Faith-Fantasy-Physics-Universe/dp/0691178534 - Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0312171 - What Is Life? [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/What-Life-Matter-Autobiographical-Sketches/dp/1107604664 - Michael Levin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Exdz2HKP7u0 - Why I Don?t Buy the Simulation Hypothesis (Nor Materialism) [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3_lBPMc6JRY - Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Consciousness-Quantum-Mechanics-Shan-Gao/dp/0197501664 - Ivette Fuentes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/cUj2TcZSlZc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Libet experiment didn't kill free will, says professor of neuroscience Aaron Schurger; the brain's "readiness potential" is simply stochastic neural noise. We then tackle consciousness's role in initiating action, the hard problem, and what it'd take for neuroscience to truly disprove our choices. If you?re interested in the topics above, I think you?ll love this podcast. Sponsors: - Get 50% off Claude Pro, including access to Claude Code, at https://claude.ai/theoriesofeverything - Get your copy of Richard Fain?s Delivering the Wow?available today on Amazon, or wherever you buy your books. - As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Timestamps: - 00:00 - The Readiness Potential - 07:14 - Reinterpreting Libet's Results - 24:18 - Autocorrelated Neural Noise - 36:06 - Noise vs. Conscious Imperative - 43:46 - Resolving Libet's Paradox - 50:55 - The Point of No Return - 56:11 - Attention Schema Theory - 01:03:47 - Explaining "What It's Like" - 01:17:00 - Consciousness & Action Initiation - 01:24:54 - Testing Consciousness Thresholds Links mentioned: - Aaron Schurger?s Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lBSjfagAAAAJ&hl=en - Daniel Dennett [TOE]: https://youtu.be/bH553zzjQlI - Determined: A Science Of Life Without Free Will [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Determined-Science-Life-without-Free/dp/B0BVNSX4CQ/ref=sr_1_1 - Robert Sapolsky [TOE]: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8 - An Accumulator Model For Spontaneous Neuralactivity Prior To Self-Initiated Movement [Paper]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.1210467109 - Consciousness Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk - Stephen Wolfram [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0YRlQQw0d-4 - Awareness As A Perceptual Model Of Attention [Paper]: https://grazianolab.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3411/files/graziano/files/cog_neurosci_2011b.pdf - Cortical Activity Is More Stable When Sensory Stimuliare Consciously Perceived [Paper]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.1418730112 - Propofol Anesthesia Destabilizes Neural Dynamics Across Cortex [Paper]: https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0896-6273%2824%2900446-X - Jenann Ismael [TOE]: https://youtu.be/7kvXihDAOi0 SUPPORT: - Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join - Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal - Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9 - Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 SOCIALS: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Guests do not pay to appear. Theories of Everything receives revenue solely from viewer donations, platform ads, and clearly labelled sponsors; no guest or associated entity has ever given compensation, directly or through intermediaries. #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe One week ago, I (Curt Jaimungal) was invited to Niagara University to give the Peggy and John Day University Honors Endowed Lecture, which was quite the privilege and honor. The lecture focuses on metaphysics. I explain extremely simply the arguments for you being a ?simulation,? the arguments against it, and where I personally land. Then I do the same for ?materialism.? Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Timestamps: - 00:00 - Simulation vs. Materialism - 05:04 - Mistakes Intellectuals Make - 10:12 - The Simulation Mythology - 16:46 - Bayesian Errors & Glitches - 23:22 - Principle of Indifference Flaws - 29:07 - The Case Against Materialism / Physicalism - 35:28 - Nested Consciousness Problem - 42:36 - Q&A: Modern Dualism? - 50:51 - Debating Indifference Principle Links mentioned: - Niagara University?s 2025 Fall Speaker Series: https://www.niagara.edu/academics/initiatives-and-institutes/fall-speaker-series/ - Michael Barnwell [Site]: https://www.philosophy4business.com/ - David Deutsch [TOE]: https://youtu.be/vKeWv-cdWkM - Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU - David Chalmers [TOE]: https://youtu.be/RH5qjdHhtBk - The Most Abused Theorem in Math [TOE]: https://youtu.be/OH-ybecvuEo - The Mandela Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect - Efron?s Dice: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/EfronsDice.html - String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY - Emily Adlam & Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/rw1ewLJUgOg - Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss SUPPORT: - Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join - Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal - Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9 - Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 SOCIALS: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Guests do not pay to appear. Theories of Everything receives revenue solely from viewer donations, platform ads, and clearly labelled sponsors; no guest or associated entity has ever given compensation, directly or through intermediaries. #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Physicist Yakir Aharonov argues that the standard story of quantum mechanics is wrong, proposing a time-symmetric ?two-state vector? view in which reality is defined by wavefunctions from both past and future. He explains weak measurements (information without collapse), nonlocal dynamics behind interference, and phenomena like the ?quantum Cheshire Cat.? Aharonov recounts the birth of the Aharonov?Bohm effect, why gauge potentials mislead about locality, and how pre and post-selection restore causal insight without determinism. He shares memories of Bohm, Heisenberg, and Feynman, touches on gravitational and non-Abelian AB analogs, and lays out why a clear narrative?not just math?is essential to understanding quantum theory. Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Links mentioned: - Yakir?s Papers: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1023512 - Jenann Ismael [TOE]: https://youtu.be/7kvXihDAOi0 - Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU - Shift Of An Electron Interference Pattern By Enclosed Magnetic Flux [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.5.3 SUPPORT: - Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join - Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal - Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9 - Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 SOCIALS: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Guests do not pay to appear. Theories of Everything receives revenue solely from viewer donations, platform ads, and clearly labelled sponsors; no guest or associated entity has ever given compensation, directly or through intermediaries. #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Deutsch argues that Einstein would struggle to secure modern research grants, exposing how funding systems favor incremental work over bold, fundamental ideas. He connects this bias to quantum computing, constructor theory, free will, and the role of creativity in scientific breakthroughs.- 00:00 - Einstein's Grant Application- 07:00 - Funding People, Not Projects- 12:35 - Is Physics Stagnant?- 17:34 - The "Checkbox" Problem- 26:05 - Physics vs. Math Departments- 32:42 - Fundamental vs. Foundational- 40:08 - Physicists and Philosophy- 45:44 - Why Academics Are Silent- 51:20 - The Problem of Quantum Gravity- 58:31 - Qubit Field Theory- 1:03:18 - Problem-Solving in Physics- 1:17:14 - Deutsch's "Impossible" List- 1:24:23 - Meeting Hugh Everett- 1:35:01 - Susskind's MWI Objections- 1:46:44 - Everett and Quantum Computing- 1:56:20 - Constructor Theory- 2:03:01 - Free Will and Knowledge- 2:09:08 - Follow The FunSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off - https://www.economist.com/toe- Claude: 50% off Claude Pro - http://claude.ai/theoriesofeverythingRESOURCES:- Beginning Of Infinity [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Transform-World/dp/0143121359- How To Reverse Academia?s Stagnation [YouTube]: https://youtu.be/Em-85baHx0A- Qubit Field Theory [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0401024- Quantum Theory, The Church?Turing Principle And The Universal Quantum Computer [Paper]: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1985.0070- ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/- Scott Aaronson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/1ZpGCQoL2Rk- Wayne Myrvold [TOE]: https://youtu.be/HIoviZe14pY- Neil Turok [TOE]: https://youtu.be/zNZCa1pVE20- String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY- Alex Honnold [TOE]: https://youtu.be/D4oXvxqzSyA- Michael Levin ? Anna Ciaunica: https://youtu.be/2aLhkm6QUgA- Stephen Wolfram [TOE]: https://youtu.be/FkYer0xP37E- The Heisenberg Picture: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps/Advanced_Statistical_Mechanics_(Tuckerman)/09%3A_Review_of_the_basic_postulates_of_quantum_mechanics/9.04%3A_The_Heisenberg_Picture- Jacob Barandes ? Emily Adlam: https://youtu.be/rw1ewLJUgOg- Everett?s Letter To DeWitt: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/orig-02.html- The Many-Worlds Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Interpretation-Quantum-Mechanics-Princeton-Library/dp/069161895X- Leonard Susskind [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2p_Hlm6aCok- Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo- David Wallace [TOE]: https://youtu.be/4MjNuJK5RzM- Chiara Marletto [TOE]: https://youtu.be/40CB12cj_aM- Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU- Robert Sapolsky [TOE]: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8- Yang-Hui He [TOE]: https://youtu.be/spIquD_mBFk- Maria Violaris [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Iya6tYN37ow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wayne Myrvold reinterprets thermodynamics as a resource theory, arguing that the slogan ?entropy always increases? follows from the second law rather than defining it. The conversation contrasts Gibbs and Boltzmann entropy, examines Maxwell?s demon, Landauer erasure, statistical bounds on Carnot efficiency, and explores implications for cosmology, ergodicity, and collapse theories, ending with pedagogical reflections and career advice.- 00:00 - Is entropy in the system or in our minds?- 07:12 - Original thermodynamics as a resource theory of heat and power- 18:24 - The second law does not assume entropy; entropy requires the second law- 30:58 - From caloric to molecular motion: historical view- 39:04 - Maxwell's insight: why the second law is not absolute- 48:11 - Information as a resource: knowledge and entropy- 1:00:53 - Boltzmann vs Gibbs: objective vs subjective entropy- 1:10:24 - Maxwell's demon and Landauer's principle- 1:25:02 - The inevitable "heat death" of the universe?- 1:30:19 - Why "disorder" misleads- 1:35:21 - Ergodic hypothesis: relevance and limits- 1:43:52 - Is statistical mechanics on shaky ground (like QFT)?- 1:50:50 - Career advice: do not join bandwagonsRESOURCES:- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8- Concerning Several Conveniently Applicable Forms For The Main Equations Of The Mechanical Heat Theory [Paper]: https://web.lemoyne.edu/giunta/Clausius1865.pdf- John Norton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Tghl6aS5A3M- On An Absolute Thermometric Scale [Paper]: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/2559_Therm_Stat_Mech/docs/Thomson_1848.pdf- Carnot Efficiency: https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Carnot_efficiency- Maxwell's Talk On Molecules: https://victorianweb.org/science/maxwell/molecules.html- Helmholtz Free Energy: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/helmholtz-free-energy- Boltzmann Entropy: https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Western_Washington_University/Biophysical_Chemistry_(Smirnov_and_McCarty)/01%3A_Biochemical_Thermodynamics/1.05%3A_The_Boltzmann_Distribution_and_the_Statistical_Definition_of_Entropy- Maxwell's Letter: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-CAVENDISH-P-00092/1- Landauer's Principle: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S135521980300039X- On A Universal Tendency In Nature To The Dissipation Of Mechanical Energy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14786445208647126- Neil Turok [TOE]: https://youtu.be/zNZCa1pVE20- Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU- Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo- Understanding The Infinite [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Infinite-Shaughan-Lavine/dp/0674921178- Classical Electrodynamics [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Classical_Electrodynamics-John-David-Jackson/dp/1119770769- Why Information Is Entropy [YouTube]: https://youtu.be/8Uilw9t-syQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anil Seth and Michael Levin debate whether brains are computers, how consciousness relates to substrate, and if algorithms can ever capture life and mind. Levin argues machines can access a platonic space of agency via embodied interfaces, xenobots, and compositional agents, while Seth challenges the software-hardware split using information theory, Granger causality, and psychophysics. Together they probe islands of awareness, degeneracy, bubble-sort side quests, LLM surprises, alignment, and how to ask better scientific questions.- 00:00 - Anil Seth & Michael Levin: Islands of Consciousness & Xenobots- 08:24 - Substrate Dependence: Why Biology Isn't Just 'Wetware'- 13:13 - Beyond Algorithms: Do Machines Tap Into a 'Platonic Space'?- 21:46 - The Ghost in the Algorithm: Emergent Agency in Bubble Sort- 29:26 - Degeneracy: The Biological Principle AI is Missing- 36:34 - The Multiplicity of Agency: Are Your Cells Conscious?- 43:24 - Unconscious Processing or Inaccessible Consciousness? The Split-Brain Problem- 49:32 - The Ultimate Experiment to Decode Consciousness- 57:31 - A Counter-Intuitive Discovery: Consciousness is Less Emergent- 1:03:39 - Psychedelics, LLMs, and the Frontiers of SurpriseSPONSORS:- HelloFresh: Get 10 Free Meals + a Free Item for Life. One per box with active subscription; free meals applied as discount on first box; new subscribers only; varies by plan. http://HelloFresh.com/THEORIESOFEVERYTHING10FM- Claude: 50% off Claude Pro, including Claude Code. http://claude.ai/theoriesofeverythingRESOURCES:- Michael Levin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s- Anil Seth [TOE]: https://youtu.be/_hUEqXhDbVs- Geoffrey Hinton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/b_DUft-BdIE- Living Things Are Not Machines [Article]: https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are/- Classical Sorting Algorithms [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05375- Michael Levin and Anna Ciaunica [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2aLhkm6QUgA- Being You: A New Science of Consciousness [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Being-You-New-Science-Consciousness/dp/1524742872/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0- The Consciousness Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk- Iain McGilchrist [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Q9sBKCd2HD0- Matt Segall [TOE]: https://youtu.be/DeTm4fSXpbM- Andres Gomez-Emilsson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/gi08eVU_-f8- MIT's Augmentation Summit: https://augmentationlab.org/summit- Granger Causality Analysis [Paper]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25716830/- Dynamical Independence [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.99.022143 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Curt Jaimungal talks with Professor Lilian Dindo about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and its use for anxiety, panic attacks, and broader mental?health challenges. They discuss how ACT can help uncover personal values, differentiate anxiety from excitement, and even boost learning in math and physics.- 00:00:00 - Introduction- 00:04:05 - What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) therapy?- 00:08:12 - Suffering is a part of life- 00:11:06 - ACT is not just for therapy, but for general illness and rejection- 00:14:24 - Lilian's feeling anxiety in this interview *right now*, but ACT is helping- 00:15:57 - Dealing with panic attacks- 00:18:22 - "Anxiety" and "excitement" are physiologically indistinguishable- 00:20:00 - Implementing ACT (specific example)- 00:26:15 - Stop avoiding. The mind works by addition (not subtraction)!- 00:30:00 - Choosing courage vs. "mustering" courage- 00:30:51 - Coping vs. mollifying- 00:33:45 - Goal oriented vs. Value oriented- 00:36:06 - How to uncover your own values?- 00:42:14 - Do values imply a "should"? (specific example)- 00:47:45 - What separates those for whom therapy works for, from those it doesn't?- 00:54:57 - Suicidal ideation / psychosis (there's hope with ACT)- 00:57:14 - Enhancing learning math / physics- 00:59:50 - Acceptance vs Acknowledgement- 01:01:40 - Physical vs Psychology (mind and body connection)- 01:05:53 - A visual example you can employ to abate anxiety- 01:10:39 - The role of belief / hope / faith / trust- 01:11:08 - "Thanking" the negative thought / emotion- 01:11:50 - People don't suffer with just ONE issue, but multipleSPONSORS:- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE- PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything- Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerchRESOURCES:- YouTube link: https://youtu.be/L_hI7JNsbt0- Lilian's links:- http://actfindyourpath.com- https://www.bcm.edu/people-search/lilian-dindo-20557- https://www.bcm.edu/research/faculty-labs/act-on-health-lab- http://contextualscience.org- Links mentioned:- Karl Friston episode: https://youtu.be/SWtFU1Lit3M- A H Almaas episode: https://youtu.be/6JlKf1QAvXA- Curt's Crash Course on Theoretical Physics: https://youtu.be/e8kyvdPP8os Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Curt talks with Andrés Gómez?Emilsson of the Qualia Research Institute about mathematically modeling consciousness and visualizing psychedelic experiences. They explore how color geometry, GPU?driven tools, and concepts like psychedelic thermodynamics can map qualia beyond ordinary sensory input.SPONSORS:- Verso Nightcap Elixir: 15% off your first order - https://evening.ver.so/toe - The Economist: 20% off for TOE listeners - https://www.economist.com/toe RESOURCES:- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com - Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Curt discusses how philosophy has directly contributed to physics through Bell's theorem, decoherence theory, the hole argument, and more. He also explores hidden philosophical assumptions in physics with John Norton that many scientists overlook.SPONSORS:- The Economist: https://www.economist.com/toe- YouTube Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Crypto (Coinbase): https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqsRESOURCES:- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- John Norton [TOE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tghl6aS5A3M&pp=0gcJCR0AztywvtLA- Neil deGrasse Tyson [TOE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye9OkJih3-U- How Not to Do Philosophy of Science [article]: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/How_not/How_not.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com- Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEK4-XtMwro- The Hole Argument: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-holearg/- General covariance and general relativity [paper]: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/decades.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com- Emily Adlam ? Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1ewLJUgOg- Eaters of the lotus [paper]: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/Eaters_final.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com- John Norton?s profile: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/jdnorton.html- #science: https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language, discusses his view of the universe as a computational system. We examine computational irreducibility, discrete space, multi?way evolution, and how observers shape physical laws from thermodynamics to quantum mechanics. Wolfram also connects his ideas to AI, biology and the emerging field of ruliology.SPONSORS:- Claude: Get 50% off Claude Pro, including access to Claude Code at http://claude.ai/theoriesofeverything- The Economist: 20% off discount for TOE listeners at https://www.economist.com/toe- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Coinbase: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4- YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/joinRESOURCES:- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MIT physicist Max Tegmark argues that artificial intelligence belongs inside physics and that consciousness will be the next frontier. He distinguishes intelligence from subjective experience, outlines falsifiable experiments with brain?reading technology, and shows how concepts like Hopfield energy landscapes and mechanistic interpretability connect mind, math, and machines.- 00:00 - Why AI is the New Frontier of Physics- 09:38 - Is Consciousness Just a Byproduct of Intelligence?- 16:43 - A Falsifiable Theory of Consciousness? (The MEG Helmet Experiment)- 27:34 - Beyond Neural Correlates: A New Paradigm for Scientific Inquiry- 38:40 - Humanity: The Masters of Underestimation (Fermi's AI Analogy)- 51:27 - What Are an AI's True Goals? (The Serial Killer Problem)- 1:03:42 - Fermat's Principle, Entropy, and the Physics of Goals- 1:15:52 - Eureka Moment: When an AI Discovered Geometry on Its Own- 1:30:01 - Refuting the "AI Doomers": We Have More Agency Than We ThinkSPONSORS:- The Economist: https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Max's Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eBXEZxgAAAAJ&hl=en- Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00873- Generalization from Starvation [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08255- Geoffrey Hinton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/b_DUft-BdIE- Michael Levin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s- Iceberg of Consciousness [TOE]: https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk- Improved Measures of Integrated Information [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02626- David Kaiser [TOE]: https://youtu.be/_yebLXsIdwo- Iain McGilchrist [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Q9sBKCd2HD0- Elan Barenholtz & William Hahn [TOE]: https://youtu.be/A36OumnSrWY- Daniel Schmachtenberger [TOE]: https://youtu.be/g7WtcTATa2U- Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8- The "All Possible Paths" Myth [TOE]: https://youtu.be/XcY3ZtgYis0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Curt Jaimungal interviews Matthieu Pageau, author of The Language of Creation, exploring a symbolic grammar that casts heaven as a plan and earth as material. Pageau argues that Satan functions as a tester before becoming a villain, and he connects feminine concepts to renewal and the logic of Gödel's incompleteness. The conversation also examines biblical narratives from Job to Ruth through this symbolic lens.- 00:00 - Who Are You? (Identity as Relational vs. Self-Defined)- 04:54 - How Matthieu's Project Differs From His Brother's (Jonathan Pageau)- 10:25 - The God-Created Function of Satan vs. The Fallen Entity- 18:34 - Are Internal Critics "Functional Satanists"?- 23:02 - Satan in the Book of Job: The Divine Hacker- 27:50 - The Axioms of Reality: A Computer Scientist's Worldview- 32:08 - Heaven as "The Plan," Earth as "The Materials"- 36:50 - The Dual Nature of Chaos (Symbolism of Water)- 44:08 - Why Are Women Central to the Resurrection Story?- 49:14 - The Simple Act That Could Have Prevented "The Fall"- 52:18 - Godel's Incompleteness Theorem as the 'Feminine' Crown- 59:31 - Redeeming the Exiled: The Pattern of Ruth- 1:05:00 - A Christian in Exile: Matthieu's Spiritual Homelessness- 1:16:15 - How to Escape Metaphysical Exile- 1:21:44 - The Will to Power: When Criticism Becomes Corrupt- 1:26:53 - The Paradox: Why You MUST Believe Yours is 'The Real Church'- 1:34:25 - What 'Nature' Truly Means- 1:47:44 - Why Renewal, Updating, and Competition Are 'Feminine'- 1:55:10 - The Story of Tamar: Deception as Righteous Renewal- 2:01:00 - How to Read the Bible Symbolically- 2:09:51 - Why Symbolism Applies to Stories, Not Raw Data- 2:21:34 - The 'Dangerous' Vision That Birthed The Book- 2:31:31 - Mind vs. Spirit vs. Outlook (And The Final Paradox)RESOURCES:- https://www.economist.com/toe- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- The Language Of Creation [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Language-Creation-Symbolism-Genesis-Commentary/dp/1981549331/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0- Jonathan Pageau [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X3co_AA6yec- Wolfgang Smith [TOE]: https://youtu.be/vp18_L_y_30- Claudia de Rham [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Ve_Mpd6dGv8- Leo Gura [TOE]: https://youtu.be/YspFR9JAq3w- The Story Of The Fall: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%203&version=NIV- The Most Abused Theorem In Math [TOE]: https://youtu.be/OH-ybecvuEo- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Frederic Schuller argues that gravity can be derived from electromagnetism by starting from the matter action and constructing compatible gravitational dynamics. He explores port?Hamiltonian methods, probability ports in quantum formalism, and the implications for causal structure and spacetime geometry.- 00:00 - Deriving Einstein from Maxwell Alone- 05:55 - Why Energy Doesn't Flow in Quantum Systems- 11:45 - How Modest Ideas Lead to Spacetime Revolution- 19:00 - Matter Dynamics Dictate Spacetime Geometry- 24:03 - Maxwell to Einstein-Hilbert Action- 31:00 - If Light Rays Split in Vacuum Then Einstein is Wrong- 38:04 - When Your Theory is Wrong- 46:10 - From Propositional Logic to Differential Geometry- 54:00 - Never Use Motivating Examples- 1:02:00 - Why Only Active Researchers Should Teach- 1:09:40 - High Demands as Greatest Motivator- 1:16:00 - Is Gravity a Force?- 1:27:00 - Academic Freedom vs Bureaucratic Science- 1:38:00 - Why String Theory Didn't Feel Right- 1:46:05 - Formal vs Conceptual Understanding- 1:54:10 - Master Any Subject: Check Every Equal Sign- 2:04:00 - The Drama of Blackboard Teaching- 2:13:15 - Why Physical Presence Matters in UniversitiesSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Frederic's Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations- Frederic's Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/@FredericSchuller- Frederic's Bio: https://people.utwente.nl/f.p.schuller- General Relativity Lecture Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist- Quantum Harmonic Oscillator [Lecture]: https://youtu.be/s3I_MGfGm-w- Constructive Gravity [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.09726- Geometry Of Manifolds [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0508170- Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/7oWip00iXbo- Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU- All Possible Paths [TOE]: https://youtu.be/XcY3ZtgYis0- Neil Turok [TOE]: https://youtu.be/ZUp9x44N3uE- Space-Time Structure [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Space-Time-Structure-Cambridge-Science-Classics/dp/0521315204- Greg Chaitin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/PoEuav8G6sY- Ivette Fuentes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/cUj2TcZSlZc- Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8- Eva Miranda [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6XyMepn-AZo- Jonathan Oppenheim [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6Z_p3viqW1g- String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY- Sabine Hossenfelder [TOE]: https://youtu.be/E3y-Z0pgupg- Leonard Susskind [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2p_Hlm6aCok- What Is Energy? [TOE]: https://youtu.be/hQk9GLZ0Fms- Claudia De Rham [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Ve_Mpd6dGv8- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Nobel laureate Gerard ?t Hooft argues that quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong, describing the universe as a deterministic pinball machine without randomness. He explores superdeterminism, cellular automata, and the implications for black hole information and hidden variables.- 00:00 - Why Quantum Mechanics is Fundamentally Wrong- 05:00 - The Frustrating Blind Spots of Modern Physicists- 11:27 - The "Hidden Variables" That Truly Explain Reality- 17:00 - The "True" Equations of the Universe Will Have No Superposition- 23:00 - Our Universe as a Cellular Automaton- 30:02 - Why Real Numbers Don't Exist in Physics- 39:14 - Can This Radical Theory Even Be Falsified?- 46:29 - How Superdeterminism Defeats Bell's Theorem- 58:19 - 't Hooft's Radical View on Quantum Gravity- 1:08:24 - Solving the Black Hole Information Paradox with "Clones"- 1:14:00 - What YOU Would Experience Falling Into a Black Hole- 1:20:17 - How 't Hooft Almost Beat a Nobel Prize DiscoverySPONSORS:- YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4RESOURCES:- The Economist discount: https://www.economist.com/toe- Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Gerard?s site: https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/- Gerard?s papers: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1019113- Cellular Automaton Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Cellular-Automaton-Interpretation-Mechanics-Fundamental/dp/3319823140- David Wallace [TOE]: https://youtu.be/4MjNuJK5RzM- Emily Adlam & Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/rw1ewLJUgOg- Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU- Conway?s Game Of Life: https://playgameoflife.com/- Julian Barbour [TOE]: https://youtu.be/bprxrGaf0Os- Emily Adlam [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6I2OhmVWLMs- Sabine?s video on Gerard: https://youtu.be/2kxoq5UzAEQ- Sabine Hossenfelder [TOE]: https://youtu.be/E3y-Z0pgupg- Tim Palmer [TOE]: https://youtu.be/vlklA6jsS8A- Carlo Rovelli [TOE]: https://youtu.be/hF4SAketEHY- Stephen Wolfram [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0YRlQQw0d-4- Bernardo Kastrup & Sabine Hossenfelder [TOE]: https://youtu.be/kJmBmopxc1k- Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss- Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/wrUvtqr4wOs- Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8- Claudia De Rham [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Ve_Mpd6dGv8- Neil Turok [TOE]: https://youtu.be/ZUp9x44N3uE- Latham Boyle [TOE]: https://youtu.be/nyLeeEFKk04- David Kaiser [TOE]: https://youtu.be/_yebLXsIdwo- String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY- Birth of Asymptotic Freedom [Paper]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0550321385902068- How To Become A Good Theoretical Physicist [Article]: https://www.goodtheorist.science/index.html- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Curt Jaimungal talks with Professor Felix Finster about his causal fermion systems framework, a radical approach that builds spacetime and quantum physics from underlying correlations. The conversation covers the Dirac sea, emergence of geometry, the Born rule, and implications for quantum gravity and cosmology.- 00:00 - Introduction- 03:12 - The Origins of Causal Fermion Systems- 06:55 - Engaging with Alternative Theories in Physics- 15:22 - The Standard View of Causation- 18:21 - Classical, Quantum, and Pre-Quantum- 23:06 - How Spacetime Emerges from Disconnected Points- 29:49 - Recovering Lorentz Signature Without Assumptions - 31:48 - Recovering the Born Rule from First Principles - 39:39 - The Measurement Problem- 46:20 - Bounds on CSL Parameters- 49:45 - The Dynamics of Spacetime - 57:47 - Collaboration with Yao and Reflections on the Theory - 1:03:13 - A Quantum Gravity Theory Without Supersymmetry - 1:05:28 - The Dirac Sea- 1:11:40 - Addressing Infinite Energy in Semi-Classical Gravity- 1:13:09 - Octonions in the Vacuum Structure- 1:17:32 - Chirality and the Action Principle - 1:20:33 - Baryogenesis and Why Matter Exists- 1:35:10 - Rethinking the Strong CP and Hierarchy Problems- 1:38:43 - Recognition, Collaboration, and Growing Attention- 1:54:00 - Mathematical Criteria vs. Experimental Tests- 2:01:02 - Advice for Young ResearchersRESOURCES:- Felix's Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F7ppNroAAAAJ- Felix's Bio: https://www.uni-regensburg.de/mathematik/mathematik-1/startseite/index.html- Causal Fermion Systems [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.19254- Linear Dynamics of Wave Functions [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.08673- The Principle of the Fermionic Projector [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Principle-Fermionic-Projector-Advanced-Mathematics/dp/0821839748- Baryogensis for Causal Fermion Systems [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.05556- Holographic Mixing [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.18045- Standard Model Physics from an Algebra? [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.09182- Barry Loewer & Eddy Chen [TOE]: https://youtu.be/xZnafO__IZ0- Fay Dowker [TOE]: https://youtu.be/PgYHEPCLVas- String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY- David Kaiser [TOE]: https://youtu.be/_yebLXsIdwo- Ruth Kastner [TOE]: https://youtu.be/-BsHh3_vCMQ- Amanda Gefter [TOE]: https://youtu.be/yABPvDJ6Zgs- Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/7oWip00iXbo- Eva Miranda [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6XyMepn-AZo- Emily Adlam [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6I2OhmVWLMs- Scott Aaronson & Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/5rbC3XZr9-c- The Economist discount: https://www.economist.com/toe- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Support on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Support on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- Support on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elan Barenholtz and William Hahn argue that language functions as a self?generating organism that writes its own software into our minds, shaping cognition and behavior. Drawing on large language models, autoregression, and cognitive science, they suggest memory, self and even concepts of God are merely informational tokens.- 00:00 - Introduction- 05:28 - The Nature of Autoregression- 10:14 - Memory and Cognition Redefined- 11:28 - The Role of Language Models- 14:23 - Exploring Consciousness and Software- 26:22 - The Evolution of Language- 38:08 - Language: A Cultural Artifact- 54:19 - The Power and Danger of Language- 1:02:52 - Embracing Uncertainty in Knowledge- 1:04:59 - Courage to Believe in Ideas- 1:09:30 - Support and Engagement with ContentSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount - https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Elan's Substack: https://elanbarenholtz.substack.com/- Elan's Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2grAjZsAAAAJ&hl=en- William's Blog: https://hahn.ai/blog/index.html- Ekkolapto's Site: https://www.ekkolapto.org/- Andrés Emilsson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/BBP8WZpYp0Y- Elan Barenholtz [TOE]: https://youtu.be/A36OumnSrWY- Anna Ciaunica & Michael Levin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2aLhkm6QUgA- William Hahn [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3fkg0uTA3qU- Michael Levin's Presentation [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Exdz2HKP7u0- Stephen Wolfram [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0YRlQQw0d-4- Geoffrey Hinton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/b_DUft-BdIE- Ai Panel [TOE]: https://youtu.be/abzXzPBW4_s- Joscha Bach & Ben Goertzel [TOE]: https://youtu.be/xw7omaQ8SgA- Noam Chomsky [TOE]: https://youtu.be/DQuiso493ro- Michael Levin Solo [TOE]: https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s- Consciousness Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk- Joscha Bach [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3MNBxfrmfmI- Scott Aaronson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/gGsh0_-q7LI- Iain McGilchrist [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Q9sBKCd2HD0- The Master and His Emissary [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Master-His-Emissary-Divided-Western/dp/0300188374- Michael Levin & Karl Friston [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0yOV9Pzk2zw- Shape Rotators vs Wordcels [Article]: https://sasamilic.medium.com/some-thoughts-on-the-shape-rotator-vs-worcel-meme-f320261a21cd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode I talk with Professor Nikita Nekrasov about why quantum field theory remains elusive despite its experimental triumphs. We explore his solution to the Cyberg?Witten puzzle, the Nekrasov partition function, and the role of exotic four?dimensional structures in the chemistry of life.- 00:00 - Introduction- 01:13 - Understanding Quantum Field Theory- 04:38 - The Journey to Gauge Origami- 06:53 - The Story of the Microsoft Partition Function- 19:12 - Connecting Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory- 36:43 - The Nature of Instantons- 45:05 - Exotic R4 and Its Implications- 49:01 - Dealing with Non-Compactness- 52:25 - The Emergence of Non-Commutative Geometry- 1:04:29 - Lessons from Mentors- 1:20:11 - Language as a Dynamic System- 1:22:35 - The Concept of Gauge Origami- 1:30:48 - Insights from Collaboration with Peers- 1:37:15 - Aspirations for Future Work- 1:38:15 - Advice for Aspiring ResearchersSPONSORS:- The Economist (20% off): https://www.economist.com/toe- YouTube Membership (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4RESOURCES:- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Nikita?s Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bKV59LwAAAAJ&hl=en- Nikita?s Lecture: https://scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/44062- Two Dimensional Gauge Theories [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9204083- Richard Borcherds [TOE]: https://youtu.be/U3pQWkE2KqM- Edward Frenkel [TOE]: https://youtu.be/n_oPMcvHbAc- Edward Frenkel?s Presentation [TOE]: https://youtu.be/RX1tZv_Nv4Y- Edward Frenkel?s Presentation [Part 2]: https://youtu.be/0AC-Ol1z5vI- String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY- Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU- Cumrun Vafa [TOE]: https://youtu.be/kUHOoMX4Bqw- Garrett Lisi [TOE]: https://youtu.be/z7ulJmfFvd8- Chiara Marletto [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Uey_mUy1vN0- Debunking "All Possible Paths" [TOE]: https://youtu.be/XcY3ZtgYis0- Peter Woit [TOE]: https://youtu.be/TTSeqsCgxj8- Leonard Susskind [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2p_Hlm6aCok- Seiberg-Witten Prepotential from Instanton Counting [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0206161- Eva Miranda [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6XyMepn-AZo- Leptons and Quarks [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/LEPTONS-QUARKS-SPECIAL-COMMEMORATING-DISCOVERY/dp/9814603007- Brian Greene [TOE]: https://youtu.be/O2EtTE9Czzo- David Wallace [TOE]: https://youtu.be/4MjNuJK5RzM- Jenann Ismael [TOE]: https://youtu.be/7kvXihDAOi0- Claudia de Rham [TOE]: https://youtu.be/hNPMKy6RxCE- Yang-Mills [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.19097 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Physicist and philosopher Jenann Ismael argues that free will is a physical reality grounded in thermodynamics and relativity. She explains why no system, not even a perfect computer, can predict its own future, and how this unpredictability underpins genuine agency.- 00:00 - Introduction- 01:42 - Free Will- 29:16 - The Limits of Predictability- 41:45 - Defining Free Will- 59:42 - Life and Cognition in the Universe- 1:05:30 - The Choices We Make- 1:08:01 - Dark Nights of the Soul- 1:09:35 - Philosophical Responses to Free Will- 1:11:03 - Personal Reflections on Life- 1:11:54 - The Weight of Loss- 1:13:40 - Patterns of Persistence- 1:17:17 - Understanding the Self- 1:18:41 - The Continuity of Existence- 1:20:17 - The Nature of Mortality- 1:22:27 - Time and Its Mysteries- 1:51:42 - The Nature of Existence- 2:04:23 - The Paradox of Newcomb's Dilemma- 2:08:38 - Lessons Learned from SufferingSPONSORS:- The Economist: https://www.economist.com/toe- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Coinbase: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4- YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/joinRESOURCES:- How Physics Makes Us Free [Book]: https://amzn.to/44CcHr8- Why Physics Should Care About The Mind [Paper]: https://www.jenanni.com/wp-content/uploads/Why-physics-should-care-about-the-mind-and-how-to-think-about-it-without-worrying-about-the-mind-body-problem.pdf- Diana Pasulka [TOE]: https://youtu.be/E5MuTHUbMUs- Leonard Susskind [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2p_Hlm6aCok- Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo- Matt Segall [TOE]: https://youtu.be/DeTm4fSXpbM- Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss- David Lewis?s Metaphysics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lewis-metaphysics/#Bib- Robert Sapolsky [TOE]: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8- David Lewis?s Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B000APAW62- Stephen Wolfram [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0YRlQQw0d-4- Roy Baumeister [TOE]: https://youtu.be/aXoK-C2c2AQ- Free Will Ontoprism [TOE]: https://youtu.be/SSbUCEleJhg- Michael Levin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s- Dark Night Of The Soul: https://basilica.ca/documents/2016/10/St.%20John%20of%20the%20Cross-Dark%20night%20of%20the%20soul.pdf- George Musser [TOE]: https://youtu.be/KVy3NeXpMaI- Tim Maudlin & Tim Palmer [TOE]: https://youtu.be/883R3JlZHXE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mathematician Eva Miranda reveals a new proof that fluid motion can be Turing?complete, making certain fluid paths undecidable. The episode explores the consequences for chaos theory, the Navier?Stokes equations and the long?standing ideas of Penrose and Tao.- 00:00 - Introduction- 01:10 - Expect the Unexpected- 02:52 - Stories of Uncertainty- 04:45 - The Impact of Alan Turing- 06:35 - The Halting Problem Explained- 09:29 - Limits of Mathematical Knowledge- 12:40 - From Certainty to Uncertainty- 16:19 - The Rubber Duck Phenomenon- 19:29 - Unpredictability vs. Undecidability- 20:18 - Classical Chaos and the Butterfly Effect- 27:12 - Asteroids and Chaos Theory- 34:32 - The Navier-Stokes Riddle- 41:18 - The Cantor Set and Computation- 46:18 - Bridging Discrete and Continuous- 49:21 - Turing Completeness in Fluid Dynamics- 1:02:39 - The Quest for Navier-Stokes Solutions- 1:06:53 - The Role of Viscosity- 1:12:09 - Hybrid Computers and Fluid Dynamics- 1:26:57 - Unpredictability in Deterministic Systems- 1:31:44 - The Future of Computational ModelsSPONSORS:- The Economist: https://www.economist.com/toe- YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Coinbase (Crypto): https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4RESOURCES:- Eva's First Appearance [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6XyMepn-AZo- Moby Duck [Book]: https://amzn.to/4ldoYsZ- Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU- The Emperor's New Mind [Book]: https://amzn.to/44jHpGK- Edward Frenkel [TOE]: https://youtu.be/RX1tZv_Nv4Y- Richard Borcherds [TOE]: https://youtu.be/U3pQWkE2KqM- Clay Mathematics Institute: https://www.claymath.org/- Eva's Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=werIoRQAAAAJ&hl=en- Topological Kleene Field Theories [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.16100- Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8- Stephen Wolfram [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0YRlQQw0d-4- My Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Barandes challenges a hidden assumption in quantum theory, linking classical probability to quantum mechanics through a so?called mathematical accident. The episode explores how this view reshapes Bell?s theorem, the measurement problem, and offers a realist path forward for quantum physics.- 00:00 - Introduction- 01:02 - Non-locality & Local Realism- 13:58 - Quantum Theory- 20:45 - Copenhagen Interpretation- 28:11 - Many Worlds Interpretation- 34:54 - Creating Indivisible Stochastic Process- 50:59 - Indivisible Stochastic Process- 1:01:46 - Teaching Black Holes to Graduate Students- 1:04:59 - Coordinate Systems in Space-Time- 1:06:58 - Teaching Black Hole Coordinates- 1:10:11 - Insights from Nima- 1:13:41 - Nima's Course on Quantum Mechanics- 1:16:22 - Quantum Foundations and Cosmology- 1:18:48 - Transitioning to Quantum Gravity- 1:23:10 - Philosophy's Role in Physics- 1:26:10 - Leaving String Theory- 1:33:39 - Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics- 1:37:02 - Challenges of String Theory- 1:42:49 - Quantum Field Theory Insights- 1:50:30 - Foundations of Quantum Field Theory- 1:53:47 - Particle Existence Between Measurements- 1:59:44 - Speculations on Quantum Gravity- 2:01:41 - Legacy and ContributionsSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount - https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- Press release of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2022/10/press-physicsprize2022-2.pdf- Eddy Chen & Barry Loewer on TOE: https://youtu.be/xZnafO__IZ0- Jacob Barandes on TOE (part 1): https://youtu.be/7oWip00iXbo- Tim Maudlin on TOE: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss- What Is Real? (book): https://www.amazon.com/What-Real-Unfinished-Meaning-Quantum/dp/0465096050- David Wallace on TOE: https://youtu.be/4MjNuJK5RzM- The Copenhagen Interpretation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/- Bohmian Mechanics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/- Everettian Quantum Mechanics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-everett/- Jacob Barandes on TOE (part 2): https://youtu.be/YaS1usLeXQM- Jacob Barandes on TOE (part 3): https://youtu.be/wrUvtqr4wOs- The sky is blue (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.00568- The Emergent Universe (book): https://www.amazon.com/Emergent-Multiverse-Quantum-according-Interpretation/dp/0198707541- Complex Coordinates and Quantum Mechanics (paper): https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.38.36- Kurt Vonnegut's lecture: https://youtu.be/4_RUgnC1lm8- Max Born's memoir: https://archive.org/details/myliferecollecti0000born/page/n5/mode/2up- Hugh Everett's unpublished dissertation: https://ia801909.us.archive.org/20/items/TheTheoryOfTheUniversalWaveFunction/The%20Theory%20of%20the%20Universal%20Wave%20Function.pdf- La nouvelle cuisine (paper): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/speakable-and-unspeakable-in-quantum-mechanics/la-nouvelle-cuisine/6FFC85D84585D9C41AA4A1185BF5290E- https://curtjaimungal.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professor John Norton dismantles long?standing assumptions in physics, from Newtonian determinism to the myth of Landauer?s principle. He argues that causation may be illusory, explores the breakdown of classical physics, and shows why even Einstein got things wrong.- 00:00 - Introduction- 03:37 - Norton's Dome Explained- 06:30 - The Misunderstanding of Determinism- 09:31 - Thermodynamics and Infinite Systems- 14:39 - Implications for Quantum Mechanics- 16:20 - Revisiting Causation- 18:15 - Critique of Causal Metaphysics- 20:21 - The Utility of Causal Language- 24:58 - Exploring Thought Experiments- 33:05 - Landauer's Principle Discussion- 49:48 - Critique of Experimental Validation- 52:25 - Consequences for Maxwell's Demon- 1:13:34 - Einstein's Critiques of Quantum Mechanics- 1:28:16 - The Nature of Scientific Discovery- 1:42:56 - Inductive Inferences in ScienceSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount. https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- A Primer on Determinism (book): https://amzn.to/45Jn3b4- John Norton?s papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UDteMFoAAAAJ- Causation as Folk Science (paper): https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/003004.pdf- Lipschitz continuity (wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipschitz_continuity- The Dome: An Unexpectedly Simple Failure of Determinism (paper): https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2943/1/Norton.pdf- Norton?s Dome (wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome- Approximation and Idealization (paper): https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/Ideal_Approx_final.pdf- On the Quantum Theory of Radiation (paper): https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/einstein/1917_Radiation.pdf- Making Things Happen (book): https://ccc.inaoep.mx/~esucar/Clases-mgc/Making-Things-Happen-A-Theory-of-Causal-Explanation.pdf- Causation in Physics (wiki): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-physics/- Laboratory of the Mind (paper): https://www.academia.edu/2644953/REVIEW_James_R_Brown_Laboratory_of_the_Mind- Roger Penrose on TOE: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU- Ted Jacobson on TOE: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8- The Thermodynamics of Computation (paper): https://sites.cc.gatech.edu/computing/nano/documents/Bennett%20-%20The%20Thermodynamics%20Of%20Computation.pdf- What's Actually Possible? (article): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-unexamined-in-principle- On a Decrease of Entropy in a Thermodynamic System (paper): https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/862.22/notes/computation/Szilard-1929.pdf- Landauer's principle and thermodynamics (article): https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10872- The Logical Inconsistency of Old Quantum Theory of Black Body Radiation (paper): https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/Inconsistency_OQT.pdf- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Adlam and Jacob Barandes deliver a forceful critique of the Many?Worlds Interpretation, arguing that it remains a philosophical fantasy without testable predictions or empirical grounding. The conversation also explores self?identity, consciousness, and the role of probability in quantum theory, challenging common assumptions about parallel universes.- 00:00 - Introduction- 01:08 - Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics- 3:22 - The Nature of Self-Identity- 10:59 - Exploring Branching Universes- 12:54 - Collaboration Between Physicists and Philosophers- 16:51 - Understanding Probability and Credence- 29:12 - The Role of Indexicals in Consciousness- 36:36 - Causation and Its Implications- 45:45 - Disagreement on Personal Identity- 51:03 - The Hard Problem of Consciousness- 1:00:35 - Reflections on Conscious Experience- 1:08:05 - Concluding Thoughts on Mind and Identity- 1:08:48 - Time and Mind- 1:09:09 - The Concept of the World Line- 1:14:43 - Active Consciousness and Agency- 1:19:12 - The Hard Problem of Consciousness- 1:36:15 - Emergence in Physics- 1:55:46 - Speculation vs. Rigorous Argument- 2:06:13 - Philosophy's Contribution to Physics- 2:12:43 - Bridging Philosophy and PhysicsRESOURCES:- https://DrinkLMNT.com/THEORIES- https://www.economist.com/toe- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Watch on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Emily?s first appearance on TOE: https://youtu.be/6I2OhmVWLMs- Emily?s profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emily-Adlam- Jacob?s first appearance on TOE: https://youtu.be/7oWip00iXbo- Jacob?s website: https://www.jacobbarandes.com/- Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://youtu.be/YaS1usLeXQM- Against Self-Location (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.05259- Eddy Chen & Barry Loewer on TOE: https://youtu.be/xZnafO__IZ0- Julian Barbour on TOE: https://youtu.be/bprxrGaf0Os- Robert Sapolsky on TOE: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8- Curt?s Consciousness Iceberg: https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk- Iain McGilchrist on TOE: https://youtu.be/Q9sBKCd2HD0- Stories of Your Life and Others (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101972122- Matt Segall on TOE: https://youtu.be/DeTm4fSXpbM- TOE?s Free Will compilation: https://youtu.be/SSbUCEleJhg- Manolis Kellis & Jacob Barandes debate: https://youtu.be/MTD8xkbiGis- ?The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism? (paper): https://iweb.langara.ca/rjohns/files/2013/01/van_inwagen.pdf- After Physics (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/067497087X- Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barry Loewer and Eddy Chen debate whether the laws of physics are mind?independent constraints or human?made descriptions, weaving metaphysics, causation, and probability into a lively discussion. The conversation spans from the nature of reality to free will, quantum mechanics, and the role of scientific laws.- 00:00 - The Nature of Physical Reality- 42:28 - The Circularity of Scientific Understanding- 1:05:44 - Reality Explored- 1:08:28 - Describing Human Experience- 1:10:10 - The Role of Science- 1:10:58 - Understanding Motion and Laws- 1:12:19 - The Nature of Laws- 1:14:55 - Possible Worlds in Philosophy- 1:18:05 - Configuration Space Debate- 1:21:10 - Quantum Mechanics and Reality- 1:22:50 - Metaphysical Necessity- 1:27:13 - The Nature of Free Will- 1:30:14 - Bridging Philosophy and Science- 1:32:05 - Constraints and Freedom- 1:34:57 - Philosophical Disputes- 1:39:08 - The Journey of Learning- 2:05:16 - Teaching and Learning Dynamics- 2:07:23 - Closing ReflectionsSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount - https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- Barry?s published papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=n_RTOwO00oEC&hl=en- Eddy?s published papers: https://arxiv.org/a/chen_e_1.html- Neil Turok on TOE: https://youtu.be/ZUp9x44N3uE- Greg Chaitin on TOE: https://youtu.be/zMPnrNL3zsE- Leonard Susskind on TOE: https://youtu.be/2p_Hlm6aCok- Emily Adlam on TOE: https://youtu.be/6I2OhmVWLMs- Laws of Nature and Chances (book): https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Nature-Chances-Breathes-Equations/dp/0198907699- Laws of Physics (book): https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Physics-Elements-Philosophy/dp/100901272X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1CHA72RYFUOI8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.OjkhTXRzZw_SWTMFZp8dUtREsTxacKuwg03AsLUUp6qLCuygS74CtEgujWl7wMvVEt-ErFEz-CfFLiiXTmuUCwKq0TW4WLFIA3DIhDNVaV4.gRuqaZldjUa8Kv_j1ew-CfZGQqtdt00X55fyMZ9NGD4&dib_tag=se&keywords=eddy+chen&qid=1749667626&s=books&sprefix=eddy+chen%2Cstripbooks%2C128&sr=1-1- On the Plurality of Worlds (book): https://www.amazon.com/Plurality-Worlds-David-K-Lewis/dp/0631224262- Tim Maudlin on TOE: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss- Tim Maudlin and Tim Palmer on TOE: https://youtu.be/883R3JlZHXE- How Physics Makes Us Free (book): https://www.amazon.com/How-Physics-Makes-Us-Free/dp/0190269448- From Time Asymmetry to Quantum Entanglement (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.05029- Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://youtu.be/7oWip00iXbo- Realism with a Human Face (book): https://www.amazon.com/Realism-Human-Face-Hilary-Putnam/dp/0674749456- Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy (book): https://www.amazon.com/Causation-Nature-Early-Modern-Philosophy/dp/0199664684/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0- The Maniac (book): https://www.amazon.com/MANIAC-Benjamin-Labatut/dp/0593654471- When We Cease to Understand the World (book): https://www.amazon.com/When-We-Cease-Understand-World/dp/1681375664- Eddy?s paper on time and nature: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09226- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elan Barenholtz, a cognitive scientist at Florida Atlantic University, argues that language functions as an autonomous, autoregressive system disconnected from the external world. He explores how AI?s meaning?free mastery of language challenges our assumptions about mind, perception, and reality.- 00:00 - The Mind and Language Connection- 02:09 - The Grounded Thesis of Language- 09:29 - The Epiphany of Language- 13:06 - The Dichotomy of Language and Perception- 16:24 - Language as an Autonomous System- 19:48 - The Problem of Qualia and Language- 23:35 - Bridging Language and Action- 31:32 - Exploring Embeddings in Language- 38:21 - The Platonic Space of Language- 44:17 - The Challenges of Meaning and Action- 51:05 - Understanding the Complexity of Color- 52:53 - The Paradox of Language Describing Itself- 58:19 - The Map of Language and Action- 1:07:48 - Continuous Learning in Language Models- 1:11:46 - The Nature of Memory- 1:22:46 - The Role of Context- 1:32:18 - Exploring Language Dynamics- 1:39:44 - The Shift from Oral to Written Language- 2:11:34 - Language and the Cosmic Whole- 2:21:35 - Reflections on ExistenceSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount - https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Elan's Substack: https://elanbarenholtz.substack.com- Elan's X / Twitter: https://x.com/ebarenholtz- Geoffrey Hinton on TOE: https://youtu.be/b_DUft-BdIE- Joscha Bach and Ben Goertzel on TOE: https://youtu.be/xw7omaQ8SgA- Elan's published papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2grAjZsAAAAJ- Ai medical panel on TOE: https://youtu.be/abzXzPBW4_s- Jacob Barandes and Manolis Kellis on TOE: https://youtu.be/MTD8xkbiGis- Will Hahn on TOE: https://youtu.be/3fkg0uTA3qU- Noam Chomsky on TOE: https://youtu.be/DQuiso493ro- Greg Kondrak on TOE: https://youtu.be/FFW14zSYiFY- Andres Emilsson on TOE: https://youtu.be/BBP8WZpYp0Y- Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.12540- Yang-Hui He on TOE: https://youtu.be/spIquD_mBFk- Iain McGilchrist on TOE: https://youtu.be/Q9sBKCd2HD0- Curt interviews ChatGPT: https://youtu.be/mSfChbMRJwY- Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674251555- Karl Friston on TOE: https://youtu.be/uk4NZorRjCo- Michael Levin and Anna Ciaunica on TOE: https://youtu.be/2aLhkm6QUgA- The Biology of LLMs (paper): https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html- Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://youtu.be/YaS1usLeXQM- Emily Adlam on TOE: https://youtu.be/6I2OhmVWLMs- Julian Barbour on TOE: https://youtu.be/bprxrGaf0Os- Tim Palmer on TOE: https://youtu.be/vlklA6jsS8A- Neil Turok on TOE: https://youtu.be/ZUp9x44N3uE- Jayar??i Bha??a: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/jayaraasi/- On the Origin of Time (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593128443 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Curt Jaimungal challenges the conventional notion of energy, arguing that it is not even a well?defined concept despite common claims of its conservation. He builds on Veritasium?s critique and explores the philosophical and scientific implications of redefining energy.SPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount - https://www.economist.com/toe- YouTube Membership: early access videos - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Coinbase: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4RESOURCES:- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this rare, unscripted conversation Eric Weinstein reveals the core of his Geometric Unity theory, discussing dark matter, missing generations, peer review, and the potential impact of GU. He also explores philosophical implications, quantum?classical relationships, and the challenges of communicating his ideas.- 00:00 - Intro- 06:50 - Simplifying GU- 07:58 - Philosophical Implications- 11:24 - Quantum vs Classical- 14:15 - Generations Role- 27:58 - Restricted Data- 32:30 - Clear Communication- 36:59 - Explaining GU Challenges- 38:14 - Recognizing Contributions- 49:34 - Seiberg-Witten Story- 1:06:12 - Critical View of Modern Physics- 1:11:59 - Criteria for Valid Theories- 1:14:32 - Quantization Challenge- 1:21:00 - Non-Positive Killing Forms- 1:26:33 - Steelmanning Importance- 1:32:11 - Understanding GU- 1:36:09 - Supersymmetry Nature- 1:37:30 - Supersymmetry Misunderstandings- 1:46:30 - Honoring Contributions- 1:53:06 - Peer Review Injustice- 1:56:33 - Struggle for Recognition- 2:06:02 - Academic Critique- 2:06:51 - Communicating GU Challenge- 2:23:05 - Reactions in Academia- 2:52:57 - Future of GU Discussions- 2:58:49 - Reflections on GU JourneySPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount for TOE listeners https://www.economist.com/toe- Curt Jaimungal Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.comRESOURCES:- Curt explains Eric's Geometric Unity theory: https://youtu.be/AThFAxF7Mgw- Eric's Oxford lecture on Geometric Unity: https://youtu.be/Z7rd04KzLcg- Garrett Lisi discusses his theory of everything on TOE: https://youtu.be/z7ulJmfFvd8- Peter Woit discusses unification on TOE: https://youtu.be/9z3JYb_g2Qs- Stephen Wolfram discusses observers on TOE: https://youtu.be/0YRlQQw0d-4- Richard Behiel's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RichBehiel/videos- Curt criticizes the idea of "explain like I'm 5": https://youtu.be/eASBzSNB8ts- Eric's first appearance on TOE: https://youtu.be/KElq_MLO1kw- Eva Miranda discusses geometric quantization on TOE: https://youtu.be/6XyMepn-AZo- Edward Frankel discusses the Geometric Langlands Correspondence on TOE: https://youtu.be/RX1tZv_Nv4Y- Emily Riehl discusses infinity categories on TOE: https://youtu.be/mTwvecBthpQ- Gregory Chaitin discusses the halt of scientific innovation on TOE: https://youtu.be/guQIkV6yCik- Curt criticizes Gödel's incompleteness theorem pop sci on TOE: https://youtu.be/OH-ybecvuEo- Curt debunks the "all possible paths" myth: https://youtu.be/XcY3ZtgYis0- Sean Carroll discusses the crisis in fundamental physics on TOE: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo- Amanda Gefter discusses quantum mechanics on TOE: https://youtu.be/yABPvDJ6Zgs- Lee Cronin discusses Terrence Howard on TOE: https://youtu.be/8xAYf7tYrNk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Philosopher of physics David Wallace unpacks the Everett (Many?Worlds) interpretation, tackling common misconceptions, probability, emergence and personal identity across multiple worlds. He also examines the Born rule, the direction of time and the role of consciousness in physics.- 00:00 - Misconceptions About Physics- 01:27 - Simplicity in Physics- 4:48 - Understanding Quantum Mechanics- 7:27 - Mysteries of Large-Scale Physics- 9:53 - The Nature of Time- 13:19 - Boundary Conditions in Physics- 15:04 - Models of Physics- 16:56 - Canonical vs Covariant Quantization- 21:10 - Theories of Gravity- 28:22 - Everettian Quantum Mechanics- 30:11 - Misconceptions in Many Worlds Theory- 47:52 - Decision Theory in Quantum Mechanics- 57:58 - The Deutsch-Wallace Theorem- 1:14:47 - The Nature of Fundamental Physics- 1:18:40 - Personal Identity in Many Worlds- 1:27:14 - Exploring Emergence- 1:33:19 - Thoughts on Consciousness- 1:35:09 - Disagreements with David Deutsch- 1:39:18 - Understanding Real Patterns- 1:54:02 - The Relevance-Limiting Thesis- 2:00:54 - Advice for Young ResearchersSPONSORS:- Huel: 15% OFF + Free Gift with code theoriesofeverything - https://huel.com/theoriesofeverything- The Economist: 20% off for TOE listeners - https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- The Emergent Multiverse (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0198707541- David Wallace?s published papers: https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-wallace/publications- Stating Structural Realism (paper): https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/20048/1/semantic.pdf- David?s reading resources: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dmw121/resources.html- The Quantization of Gravity (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0004005- Ted Jacobson discusses entropy on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mhctWlXyV8- Curt debunks the "all possible paths" myth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcY3ZtgYis0- Julian Barbour discusses time on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-bImnQ9cmw- TOE?s String Theory Iceberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4PdPnQuwjY- Bryce DeWitt?s published papers: https://journals.aps.org/search/results?clauses=%5B%7B%22operator%22%3A%22AND%22%2C%22field%22%3A%22author%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22Bryce+S+DeWitt%22%7D%5D- Carlo Rovelli discusses loop quantum gravity on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF4SAketEHY- Avshalom Elitzur discusses spacetime on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWRAaimQT1E- Sean Carroll discusses the physics community on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AoRxtYZrZo- Ruth Kastner discusses retrocausality on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BsHh3_vCMQ- Simon Saunders's talk on Many Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gM-sgmCUik- Jacob Barandes discusses quantum mechanics on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oWip00iXbo- Jacob Barandes discusses philosophy in physics on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaS1usLeXQM- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Support me on Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Professor Yang?Hue Hi explores how AI is reshaping pure mathematics, from the murmuration conjecture to breakthroughs on the Riemann Hypothesis. We examine the changing research landscape, the role of intuition, and what a future where machines generate discoveries faster than humans might look like.- 00:00 - Introduction- 01:34 - Changing Landscape- 03:30 - ML Categories- 06:53 - Researchers: Birds vs Hedgehogs- 09:36 - Personal Experiences- 11:44 - Future Role of Academics- 14:08 - AI Mathematician Presentation- 16:14 - Intuition in Discovery- 18:00 - AI Assistance in Vague Problems- 18:48 - Newton and AI- 20:59 - Literature Processing- 24:34 - Acknowledging Modern Mathematicians- 26:54 - Data Influence- 30:22 - Riemann Hypothesis Implications- 31:55 - BST Conjecture and Data- 33:29 - Collaborations and Limits- 36:04 - Future of Math and AI- 38:31 - Image Processing and Intuition- 41:57 - Visual Thinking- 49:24 - AI?Assisted Discovery- 51:34 - Murmuration Conjecture Interaction- 57:05 - Hierarchies of Difficulty- 58:43 - Memoration Breakthrough- 1:00:28 - Understanding BSD Conjecture- 1:01:45 - Diophantine Equations- 1:03:39 - Cubic Complexity- 1:19:03 - Neural Networks Predictions- 1:21:36 - Breaking the Birch Test- 1:24:44 - BSD Conjecture Clarified- 1:26:21 - AI Role in Discovery- 1:30:29 - Memoration Phenomenon- 1:32:59 - PCA Analysis- 1:35:50 - Emergence of Memoration- 1:38:35 - Conjectures and AI- 1:41:29 - Generalizing Biases- 1:44:55 - Future of AI in Math- 1:49:28 - Brave New World of DiscoveryRESOURCES:- Topology and Physics (book): https://amzn.to/3ZoneEn- Machine Learning in Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (book): https://amzn.to/4k8SXC6- The Calabi?Yau Landscape (book): https://amzn.to/43DO7H0- Yang?Hui?s bio and published papers: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yang-Hui-He- A Triumvirate of AI?Driven Theoretical Discovery (paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19973- Edward Frenkel explains the Geometric Langlands Correspondence on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX1tZv_Nv4Y- Stone Duality (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_duality- Summer of Math Exposition: https://some.3b1b.co/- Machine Learning meets Number Theory: The Data Science of Birch?Swinnerton?Dyer (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.02008- The L?functions and modular forms database: https://www.lmfdb.org/- Epoch AI FrontierMath: https://epoch.ai/frontiermath/the-benchmark- Mathematical Beauty (article): https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematical-beauty-truth-and-proof-in-the-age-of-ai-20250430/- https://cell.ver.so/TOE- https://www.economist.com/toe- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We examine the common claim that you must be able to explain a concept to a five?year?old to truly understand it, arguing that the idea can be misleading and even harmful. The episode explores why some truths resist simplification and shows what genuine understanding looks like for deep learners and teachers.SPONSORS:- The Economist (20% off): https://www.economist.com/toe- Curt's Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify (listen): https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqsRESOURCES:- Algebraic Topology (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521795400- Topology and Geometry (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0387979263- Language isnt just "low resolution communication" (Substack): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/language-isnt-just-low-resolution- Non-analytic smooth function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-analytic_smooth_function- Emily Riehl on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTwvecBthpQ- Neil deGrasse Tyson on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhWWlJFwTqs- Curt debunking the "all possible paths" myth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcY3ZtgYis0- What does it mean to explore the "ill-defined"? (Substack): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-explore-the Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MIT physicist and historian David Kaiser examines primordial black holes, exploring how they might explain dark matter and connect to cosmic inflation. He discusses their potential impact on our understanding of the early universe, linking quantum theory, cosmology, and the history of physics.- 00:00 - What Are Primordial Black Holes?- 01:41 - Could They Be Dark Matter?- 05:21 - Kaiser?s Academic Journey- 10:56 - Studying Physics and Its History- 11:57 - Cosmic Inflation Basics- 15:31 - Direct Collapse vs. Stellar Collapse- 25:14 - Bell?s Theorem Explained- 38:32 - Quasars and the Cosmic Bell Test- 43:04 - High-Precision Astronomy- 47:38 - Learning Curves & Interdisciplinary Research- 48:17 - Scalar Fields and Inflation Models- 55:05 - Black Hole Formation from Inflation- 58:41 - Black Hole Mass as a Cosmic Clock- 1:02:50 - Quark-Gluon Plasma & Color Charge- 1:08:46 - Critical Collapse and Mass Spread- 1:11:34 - Charged Primordial Black Holes- 1:13:54 - Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Implications- 1:20:14 - Detecting Black Holes Locally- 1:23:51 - Tracking Planetary Wobbles- 1:26:04 - Hawking Radiation & Positron Signatures- 1:30:06 - Why Track Mars, Not Earth?SPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount. https://www.economist.com/toe- Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- YouTube Membership (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/joinRESOURCES:- David Kaiser's published papers: https://arxiv.org/a/kaiser_d_1.html- Bell, J. S. "On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox" (1964): https://cds.cern.ch/record/111654/files/vol1p195-200_001.pdf- "Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos from Primordial Black Holes" (2025): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.19227- "Cosmic Bell Test Using Random Measurement Settings from High-Redshift Quasars" (2018): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.05966- "Close Encounters of the Primordial Kind" (2023): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.17217- "Primordial Black Holes from Multifield Inflation with Non-minimal Couplings" (2022): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.04471- "Testing Bell's Inequality with Cosmic Photons" (2013): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.3288- "Planck Constraints & Gravitational-Wave Forecasts for PBH Dark Matter Seeded by Multifield Inflation" (2023): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.02168- "Light Scalar Fields Foster Production of Primordial Black Holes" (2025): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.13251- "Debye Screening of Non-Abelian Plasmas in Curved Spacetimes" (2023): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.15385- "Primordial Black Holes with QCD Color Charge" (2023): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.16877- A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553380168- In Search of Schrödinger's Cat - John Gribbin: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553342533- How the Hippies Saved Physics - David Kaiser: https://www.amazon.com/dp/039334231X- Drawing Theories Apart - David Kaiser: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002Y5W2X2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gödel?s incompleteness theorem is often misrepresented in popular science. In this episode we cut through the hype, correcting misconceptions from figures like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Veritasium, Michio Kaku, and Deepak Chopra, and explain exactly what Gödel proved and what he did not.SPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount, https://www.economist.com/toe- Curt?s Substack: personal writings, https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify: listen here, https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- YouTube Membership: early access videos, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: support the show, https://patreon.com/curtjaimungalRESOURCES:- Scott Aaronson | How Much Math Is Knowable?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VplMHWSZf5c- The Consistency of the Axiom of Choice and of the Generalized Continuum-Hypothesis (paper): https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.24.12.556- The Gettier Problem: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/#GettProb- Jennifer Nagel on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWZVMZ9Tm7Q- Gödel?s First Incompleteness Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Formally_Undecidable_Propositions_of_Principia_Mathematica_and_Related_Systems- Roger Penrose on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGm505TFMbU- Curt talks with Penrose for IAI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQM0OtxvZ-Y- Bertrand Russell?s Comments: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Russell,_Whitehead_-_Principia_Mathematica,_vol._I,_1910.djvu/84- Gregory Chaitin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMPnrNL3zsE- Chaitin on the ?Rise and Fall of Academia?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoEuav8G6sY- Curt and Neil Tyson Debate Physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye9OkJih3-U- Gödel?s Completeness Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_completeness_theorem- Latham Boyle on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyLeeEFKk04- Gabriele Carcassi on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIQ7CaQX8EI- Gabriele Carcassi?s YouTube Channel (Live): https://www.youtube.com/@AssumptionsofPhysicsResearch- Robinson Arithmetic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_arithmetic- Algorithmic Information Theory (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521616042- The Paris-Harrington Theorem: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Paris-HarringtonTheorem.html- Curt?s Substack: The Mathematics of Self: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-mathematics-of-self-why-you-can- The Church-Turing Thesis: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/- Curt?s Substack: The Most Profound Theorem in Logic You Haven't Heard Of: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/infinity-its-many-models-and-lowenheim- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode physicist Ted Jacobson explains how Einstein?s equations can emerge from thermodynamic principles of the quantum vacuum, suggesting gravity is an entropic force. The discussion explores Rindler horizons, quantum vacuum states, and holographic duality, linking thermodynamics to spacetime geometry.- 00:00 - Introduction- 01:11 - The Journey into Physics- 04:26 - Spirituality and Physics- 06:29 - Connecting Gravity and Thermodynamics- 09:22 - The Concept of Rindler Horizons- 13:12 - The Nature of Quantum Vacuum- 20:53 - The Duality of Quantum Fields- 32:59 - Understanding the Equation of State- 35:05 - Exploring Local Rindler Horizons- 47:15 - Holographic Duality and Space-Time Emergence- 58:19 - The Metric and Quantum Fields- 59:58 - Extensions and Comparisons in Gravity- 1:26:26 - The Nature of Black Hole Physics- 1:31:04 - Comparing TheoriesSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount - https://www.economist.com/toe- Patreon: Support TOE - https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Substack: Personal Writings - https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify: Listen - https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- YouTube: Become a Member (Early Access Videos) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/joinRESOURCES:- Ted?s published papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QyHAXo8AAAAJ&hl=en- Claudia de Rham on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve_Mpd6dGv8- Neil Turok on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZCa1pVE20- Bisognano-Wichmann theorem: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Bisognano-Wichmann+theorem- Scott Aaronson and Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbC3XZr9-c- Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4- Ruth Kastner on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BsHh3_vCMQ- Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaS1usLeXQM- Leonard Susskind on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_Hlm6aCok- Ted?s talk on black holes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYt2Rm_dXf4- Ted Jacobson: Diffeomorphism invariance and the black hole information paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6kdHge-NNY- Bose-Einstein condensate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose?Einstein_condensate- Holographic Thought Experiments (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.2845- Peter Woit and Joseph Conlon on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAaXk_WoQqQ- Chiara Marletto on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uey_mUy1vN0- Entanglement Equilibrium and the Einstein Equation (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.04753- Ivette Fuentes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUj2TcZSlZc- Unitarity and Holography in Gravitational Physics (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.2842- The dominant model of the universe is cracking (Economist article): https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/19/the-dominant-model-of-the-universe-is-creaking- Suvrat Raju?s published papers: https://www.suvratraju.net/publications- Mark Van Raamsdonk?s published papers: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=k8LsA4YAAAAJ&hl=en- Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryu?Takayanagi_conjecture- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode physicist Julian Barbour argues that time is an illusion and that quantum mechanics may be replaced by a theory based on relational ratios. He explores how entropy, consciousness, and the structure of the universe can be understood without fundamental time or wave functions.- 00:00 - Introduction- 01:35 - Consciousness and the Nature of Reality- 3:23 - The Nature of Time and Change- 7:01 - The Role of Variety in Existence- 9:23 - Understanding Entropy and Temperature- 36:10 - Revisiting the Second Law of Thermodynamics- 41:33 - The Illusion of Entropy in the Universe- 46:11 - Rethinking the Past Hypothesis- 55:03 - Complexity, Order, and Newton's Influence- 1:02:33 - Evidence Beyond Quantum Mechanics- 1:16:04 - Age and Structure of the Universe- 1:18:53 - Open Universe and Ratios- 1:20:15 - Fundamental Particles and Ratios- 1:24:20 - Emergence of Structure in Age- 1:27:11 - Shapes and Their Explanations- 1:32:54 - Life and Variety in the Universe- 1:44:27 - Consciousness and Perception of Structure- 1:57:22 - Geometry, Experience, and Forces- 2:09:27 - The Role of Consciousness in Shape DynamicsSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount. https://www.economist.com/toe- Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/joinRESOURCES:- Julian's previous appearance on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bprxrGaf0Os- Neil Turok on TOE (Big Bang): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUp9x44N3uE- Neil Turok on TOE (Black Holes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZCa1pVE20- Debunking "All Possible Paths": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcY3ZtgYis0- John Vervaeke on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVj1KYGyesI- Jacob Barandes & Scott Aaronson on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbC3XZr9-c- The Dark History of Anti-Gravity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBA3RUxkZdc- Peter Woit on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSeqsCgxj8- The Monadology - G.W. Leibniz: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1546527664- The Janus Point - Julian Barbour: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0465095461- Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat - Carnot: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1514873974- Lucretius: On the Nature of Things: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0393341364- Heisenberg and the Interpretation of QM: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1107403510- Quantum Mechanics for Cosmologists: https://books.google.ca/books?id=qou0iiLPjyoC&pg=PA99- Faraday, Maxwell, and the EM Field: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1616149426- The Feeling of Life Itself - Christof Koch: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08BTCX4BM- Time's Arrow and Simultaneity (Barbour): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.14179- On the Moving Force of Heat (Clausius): https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/2559_Therm_Stat_Mech/docs/Clausius%20Moving%20Force%20heat%201851.pdf- On the Motions and Collisions of Elastic Spheres (Maxwell): http://www.alternativaverde.it/stel/documenti/Maxwell/1860/Maxwell%20%281860%29%20-%20Illustrations%20of%20the%20dynamical%20theory%20of%20gases.pdf- Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell-Boltzmann_distribution- Identification of a Gravitational Arrow of Time: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0917- The Nature of Time: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.3489- The Solution to the Problem of Time in Shape Dynamics: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.6264- CPT-Symmetric Universe: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.08928- Mach's Principle and Dynamical Theories (JSTOR): https://www.jstor.org/stable/2397395- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this three?hour deep dive, Curt Jaimungal unpacks Eric Weinstein?s Geometric Unity, presenting graduate?level mathematics alongside accessible explanations for newcomers. The episode serves as an extensive ?iceberg? guide, moving from foundational concepts to advanced theory. SPONSORS:- The Economist (20% off): https://www.economist.com/toe- Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- YouTube Membership (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neil Turok proposes a radical black?hole theory in which the interior is a mirror reflecting an antimatter twin, eliminating information loss, multiverses and extra dimensions. He explains the role of CPT symmetry, the black?mirror solution, and its implications for quantum effects and cosmology.- 00:00 - Introduction- 04:14 - The Paradox of Information Loss- 11:04 - CPT Symmetry and Its Implications- 19:09 - Stuckelberg's Insights on Antiparticles- 29:34 - The Black Mirror Solution Explained- 41:21 - Dramatic Encounters at the Horizon- 51:51 - The Unexpected Nature of the Metric- 59:46 - Exploring Quantum Effects in Black Holes- 1:05:04 - Black Hole Entropy and Observations- 1:10:13 - The Universe: Superposed and Entangled- 1:15:15 - The Economist's Insights- 1:15:29 - Quantum Mechanics and Classicality- 1:20:35 - Simplicity in Cosmology- 1:21:58 - The DESE Experiment and Dark Energy- 1:26:40 - The Cosmological Constant Dilemma- 1:31:13 - The Bet on Cosmological Theories- 1:32:06 - The UFO Debate with Neil deGrasse Tyson- 1:34:52 - The Nature of Time and Understanding- 1:36:44 - Spinning Galaxies and Cosmic Alignment- 1:38:44 - Understanding the Black Hole Model- 1:41:59 - The Mirror Universe Concept- 1:49:41 - Dimension Zero Scalars in Physics- 1:55:15 - Solving the Hierarchy Problem- 1:56:46 - The Future of Physics- 2:14:06 - Advice for Young PhysicistsSPONSORS:- Huel: Try Huel with 15% OFF + Free Gift using code theoriesofeverything - https://huel.com/theoriesofeverything- The Economist: 20% off for TOE listeners - https://www.economist.com/toe- Curt Jaimungal Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungalRESOURCES:- On the analytic extension of regular rotating black holes (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11322- Comment (2) on ?Quantum Transfiguration of Kruskal Black Holes? (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.04650- Black Mirrors: CPT-Symmetric Alternatives to Black Holes (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.09558- Path integral formulation (Wiki): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation#Feynman's_interpretation- The dominant model of the universe is creaking (article): https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/19/the-dominant-model-of-the-universe-is-creaking- Particle Creation by Black Holes (paper): https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=-AEEg5AAAAAJ&citation_for_view=-AEEg5AAAAAJ:maZDTaKrznsC- The distribution of galaxy rotation in JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.18781- Cancelling the vacuum energy and Weyl anomaly in the standard model with dimension-zero scalar fields (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.06258- Gravitational entropy and the flatness, homogeneity and isotropy puzzles (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07279- Radiative Mass Mechanism: Addressing the Flavour Hierarchy and Strong CP Puzzle (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.13385 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Philosopher Jennifer Nagel argues that universal skepticism is philosophy?s greatest deception, claiming that doubt is an illusion and knowledge is a primitive instant recognition. We explore the nature of knowledge, different forms of skepticism, the Gettier problem, and how these ideas relate to consciousness and free will.- 00:00 - Introduction- 01:28 - The Nature of Knowledge- 10:58 - Philosophers and the Skeptical Mindset- 16:57 - Types of Skepticism- 22:27 - Exploring Knowledge Attribution- 29:51 - The Illusion of Knowledge- 34:16 - Knowing Without Knowing- 38:10 - Writing About Knowledge- 46:10 - Analyzing Knowledge- 55:08 - The Gettier Problem and Its Challenges- 1:01:10 - The Functionality of Knowledge- 1:11:23 - Collaborative Understanding of Knowledge- 2:10:00 - Understanding and Consciousness- 2:26:32 - Truth and Its Nature- 2:32:16 - Superposition and Contradictions- 2:32:19 - ConclusionSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount https://www.economist.com/toe- Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungalRESOURCES:- Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction (book): https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Very-Short-Introduction-Introductions/dp/019966126X- Knowledge and its Limits (book): https://www.amazon.ca/Knowledge-its-Limits-Timothy-Williamson/dp/019925656X- Very Short Introductions (series): https://www.google.com/search?q=a+very+short+introduction+to+series&sca_esv=3da4db664be6b3a1&ei=ypX6Z6flHsDniLMP2v2QkQk&ved=0ahUKEwin8oSB9tKMAxXAM2IAHdo-JJIQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=a+very+short+introduction+to+series&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiI2EgdmVyeSBzaG9ydCBpbnRyb2R1Y3Rpb24gdG8gc2VyaWVzMgUQABiABDILEAAYgAQYhgMYigUyCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFMgsQABiABBiGAxiKBTIIEAAYogQYiQUyCBAAGIAEGKIEMggQABiABBiiBDIFEAAY7wVIqBRQxAtYwBBwAXgAkAEAmAFZoAGtAqoBATS4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgSgAocCwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR8ICDRAuGIAEGLADGEMYigXCAg0QABiABBiwAxhDGIoFwgIPEAAYgAQYQxiKBRhGGPsBwgIbEAAYgAQYQxiKBRhGGPsBGJcFGIwFGN0E2AEBwgIGEAAYBxgemAMAiAYBkAYKugYGCAEQARgTkgcBNKAHph6yBwEzuAf_AQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#wgvs=e- Time: A Very Short Introduction (book): https://www.amazon.ca/Time-Short-Introduction-Jenann-Ismael/dp/0198832664- Laplace meets Godel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB3tS7j7nNU- Flexible Goals (paper): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cogs.13195- The Legend of the Justified True Belief Analysis (paper): https://philpapers.org/archive/DUTTLO-3.pdf- Lay Denial of Knowledge for Justified True Beliefs (paper): https://philpapers.org/archive/NAGLDO- TOE?s Consciousness Iceberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDjnEiys98o- Matt Segal on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeTm4fSXpbM- Curt reads Plato?s Cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PurNlwnxwfY- David Bentley Hart on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEAgVvW9i10- Donald Hoffman on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmieNQH7Q4w&t=1s- Iain McGilchrist on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-SgOwc6Pe4&t=6326s&ab_channel=CurtJaimungal- Geoffrey Hinton on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_DUft-BdIE- John Vervaeke on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVj1KYGyesI&t=1s- Wolfgang Smith on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp18_L_y_30- Polymath?s Ai panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abzXzPBW4_s- Donald Hoffman and Philip Goff on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmaIBxkqcT4- Robert Sapolsky on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0IqA1hYKY8&pp=ygUUY3VydCByb2JlcnQgc2Fwb2xza3k%3D- Curt debunks the ?all possible paths? myth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcY3ZtgYis0&t=46s- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Curt Jaimungal debunks the popular ?all possible paths? myth, explaining what Feynman?s path integral actually demonstrates and why the misconception endures. He also examines related misunderstandings about quantum mechanics and the nature of light.RESOURCES:- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Original Substack article: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/particles-dont-take-all-possible- Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics (article): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-interpretations-of-quantum-mechanics?utm_source=publication-search- Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrUvtqr4wOs- Tim Maudlin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1bs5o3nss- Sean Carroll on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AoRxtYZrZo- Eva Miranda on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XyMepn-AZo- Mithuna's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LookingGlassUniverse- Mithuna Yoganathan on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2ct0zv_M-I- Defining light (article): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/well-technically- What is energy, actually? (article): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/what-is-energy-actually- TOE's String Theory Iceberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4PdPnQuwjY- Paper on Bell's Theorem: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17521- Veritasium's YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium- Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Emily Adlam challenges the common assumption that time flows, presenting an ?all-at-once? view of physics where the universe resembles a completed Sudoku puzzle. The conversation delves into quantum measurement, observer roles, causality, and the arrow of time, highlighting the need for both philosophical clarity and scientific precision.- 00:00 - Introduction- 00:56 - Observers in Quantum Mechanics- 02:15 - The Measurement Problem- 06:23 - Dogmas in Quantum Foundations- 08:24 - Causation and Its Philosophical Implications- 09:12 - The Arrow of Time and Its Mysteries- 10:28 - Exploring Coarse Graining and Reductionism- 13:21 - Non-Locality: Temporal vs. Spatial- 16:06 - The Nature of Non-Locality- 19:34 - Temporal Non-Locality and Its Implications- 21:51 - Retrocausality: The All-at-Once Perspective- 26:25 - The Measurement Problem and All-at-Once Framework- 28:24 - Observer-Centric Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics- 31:29 - Probabilities in Physics- 32:51 - The Process Matrix and Causal Structures- 38:33 - Foundations of Physics and Philosophy- 1:05:16 - The Emergence of Space-Time- 1:08:11 - Exploring Correlations in Physical Parameters- 1:10:44 - Epistemology of the Measurement Problem- 1:13:26 - Lessons in Patience and PersistenceSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount https://www.economist.com/toe- Substack: personal writings https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungalRESOURCES:- Emily's profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emily-Adlam- Spooky Action at a Temporal Distance (paper): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7512241/pdf/entropy-20-00041.pdf- Quantum Field Theory and the Limits of Reductionism (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.20457- Two Roads of Retrocausality (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.12934- Taxonomy for Physics Beyond Quantum Mechanics (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.12293- Strong Determinism (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02886- Carlo Rovelli on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF4SAketEHY- Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4- Emily interviewed about Nonlocality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR7aPlZg7dE&ab_channel=GeorgeMusser- Tim Palmer on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlklA6jsS8A- Tim Maudlin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1bs5o3nss- Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.01411- Governing Without a Fundamental Direction of Time (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09226- Matt Segal on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeTm4fSXpbM- Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oWip00iXbo&list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlN6E8KrxcYCWQIHg2tfkqvR&index=33- Sabine Hossenfelder on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3y-Z0pgupg&t=1s- Bernardo Kastrup and Sabine on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJmBmopxc1k&t=755s&ab_channel=CurtJaimungal- Sean Carroll on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AoRxtYZrZo- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham returns to discuss the possibility that gravity has mass, challenging core assumptions of general relativity and offering new perspectives on dark energy. The conversation also explores implications for cosmology, quantum gravity, and the foundations of physics.- 00:00 - Introduction- 01:20 - Claudia's Approach- 09:11 - Claudia's Motivation- 14:45 - Dark Energy- 23:35 - Causality- 27:19 - Other Approaches- 45:10 - New Physics- 50:47 - Dark Energy (cont)- 57:36 - Quantum Gravity / String Theory- 01:14:10 - Gravitons & Photons- 01:21:44 - Symmetry- 01:30:25 - Double Slit Experiment- 01:50:15 - Cosmology- 01:54:45 - Massive Graviton- 02:00:10 - ConclusionSPONSORS:- ver.so: Use code TOE for 15% off - https://ver.so- The Economist: 20% off for TOE listeners - https://www.economist.com/toe- Patreon: Support TOE - https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Substack: Curt Jaimungal personal writings - https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify: Listen on Spotify - https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- YouTube Membership: Early access videos - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqsRESOURCES:- The Beauty of Falling (Claudia's book): https://amzn.to/4i4Z9cx- Claudia's published papers: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/c.de-rham/publications- Claudia's first appearance on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve_Mpd6dGv8&t=83s&ab_channel=CurtJaimungal- Carlo Rovelli on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF4SAketEHY- Curt's Substack article on energy: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/what-is-energy-actually- Neil Turok on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUp9x44N3uE- Tim Palmer on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlklA6jsS8A- DESI article on The Economist: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/19/the-dominant-model-of-the-universe-is-creaking- String Theory Iceberg on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4PdPnQuwjY- Leonard Susskind on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_Hlm6aCok- Chiara Marletto and Vlatko Vedral on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uey_mUy1vN0- TOE's telling of "The Dark History of Anti-Gravity": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBA3RUxkZdc- Positive Signs in Massive Gravity (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.04068 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Curt Jaimungal, Elan Barenholtz, and William Hahn explore how AI?driven medical swarms could provide 24/7 personalized healthcare at virtually no cost, examining technical, ethical, and educational implications.- 00:00 - Introduction- 4:43 - A New Approach to Healthcare- 5:33 - AI in Medical Imaging- 7:40 - Cognitive Models- 11:09 - Education in Medicine- 23:02 - Exploring the Boundaries of AI- 32:04 - The Future of AI in Medicine- 37:20 - Swarming Agents- 41:49 - Ethics of AI in Healthcare- 45:17 - AI into Clinical Practice- 55:58 - Preparing for an AI-Driven Future- 1:15:03 - Human Element in Medicine- 1:17:19 - Emotional Intelligence in AI- 1:20:11 - Unified Theory in Medicine- 1:21:31 - ConclusionSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount - https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Ekkolapto: https://www.ekkolapto.org/polymath- Ekkolapto?s Longevity Hackathon: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy5dPSW_KkniuHpoLwlzkYcxhxn50Mn0T- William Hahn?s lab: https://mpcrlab.com/- Michael Levin?s presentation at ekkolapto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exdz2HKP7u0- Gil Blander?s InsideTracker (website): https://blog.insidetracker.com/- Dan Elton?s website: https://www.moreisdifferent.com/- FAU?s Sandbox: https://www.fau.edu/sandbox/- Will Hahn on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr4R7eh5f_M&t=1s- Will Hahn?s in-person interview on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fkg0uTA3qU- Michael Levin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8iFtaltX-s- Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4- Neil Turok?s lecture on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwhqmPqRl4&list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlOYgTu7P4nfjYkv3mkikyBa&index=13- Robin Hanson on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEomfUU4PDs- Tyler Goldstein (YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/@theoryofeveryone GO TO THIS MAN'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL. HE HELPED WITH THE CAMERA WORK IMPROMPTU AND ALSO HAS A FANTASTIC CHANNEL ANALYZING THEORIES. THANK YOU, TYLER!- Joscha Bach on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MNBxfrmfmI- Manolis Kellis on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g56lxZwnaqg- Geoffrey Hinton on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_DUft-BdIE- Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Economist Robin Hanson explores the provocative idea that an advanced extraterrestrial civilization may be subtly monitoring Earth, either as caretakers or as part of a long?running experiment. The conversation also examines academic funding, peer review, and the challenges facing modern scholarship.- 00:00 - Introduction- 01:36 - The Great Filter- 05:38 - Where Are The Aliens?- 09:13 - UFOs- 16:50 - Panspermia- 23:05 - Alien Hierarchies- 27:30 - Alien Culture & Motivations- 33:18 - Probability of Aliens- 39:18 - Truth- 49:41 - Fall of Academia- 01:11:27 - Peer Review- 01:20:22 - Ranking Ideas- 01:23:09 - The System is "Broken"SPONSORS:- Rula: $15 per session with insurance. https://www.rula.com/TOE- Huel: 15% OFF + Free Gift, use code theoriesofeverything. https://huel.com/theoriesofeverything- The Economist: 20% off discount. https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- Robin?s blog: https://www.overcomingbias.com/- Robin?s profile: https://economics.gmu.edu/people/rhanson- Robin?s book: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Em-Work-Robots-Earth/dp/0198754620- Tyler Cowen on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwieLd7Lyc8&ab_channel=CurtJaimungal- Gregory Chaitin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoEuav8G6sY- Matthew Segal on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeTm4fSXpbM- Daniel Van Zant?s article on incentive markets: https://www.danielvanzant.com/p/breakthrough-incentive-markets- Michael Levin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8iFtaltX-s- Lue Elizondo on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAmFlLfsZKM- Ross Coulthart on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQnGcX7oxms- Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Michael Levin explains how bioelectric signals govern cell communication, tissue regeneration, and intelligence across biology, and how decoding these electrical memories could enable limb regrowth, cancer suppression, and the creation of novel organs.- 00:00 - Introduction- 02:45 - The Role of Bioelectricity in Medicine- 7:00 - Multi-Scale Problem Solving- 7:55 - The Intelligence of Development- 11:41 - Decoding Electrical Memories- 12:29 - The Power of Bioelectric Signals- 13:20 - Rewiring Cellular Communication- 15:29 - Cancer and Cellular Networks- 16:30 - Birth Defects and Bioelectricity- 18:28 - Regeneration and Bioelectric Pathways- 22:50 - Inducing Novel Organs- 25:35 - The Future of Medicine- 26:24 - Audience Interaction and Questions- 31:34 - The Future of Bioelectricity- 38:55 - Integrating Bioelectricity with Evolution- 44:17 - Preventative Strategies in Medicine- 45:45 - Closing Remarks and Resources- 46:30 - ConclusionSPONSORS:- The Economist: https://www.economist.com/toe- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungalRESOURCES:- Michael Levin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8iFtaltX-s- The Levin Lab (website): https://drmichaellevin.org/- Michael?s blog: https://thoughtforms.life/- Michael?s presentations: https://drmichaellevin.org/presentations/- Michael and colleagues discussing anthrobots and other groundbreaking research on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG6GIzNM0aM- ekkólapto (website): https://www.ekkolapto.org/- ekkólapto Events: https://lu.ma/calendar/cal-GqNtzHBC2j8ARjb- Curt Jaimungal?s presentation at Polymath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCkMyjzQDeg- Will Hahn on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr4R7eh5f_M- Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Urs Schreiber explains how higher category theory can generate physical structures?from the empty set to fermions and even 11?dimensional supergravity?by treating mathematics as the structure of structure. The discussion weaves philosophy, topology, and gauge theory to show how ?something? can emerge from ?nothing.? - 00:00 - Introduction- 01:27 - The Creation of nLab- 04:36 - Philosophy Meets Physics- 07:55 - The Role of Mathematical Language- 09:32 - Emergence from Nothing- 16:25 - Towards a Theory of Everything- 22:21 - The Problem with Modern Physics- 25:31 - Diving into Category Theory- 35:30 - Understanding Adjunctions- 41:46 - The Significance of Duality- 52:54 - Exploring Toposes- 1:14:20 - The UNEDA Lemma and Generalized Spaces- 1:16:37 - Charts in Physics- 1:20:55 - Introduction to Infinitesimal Disks- 1:23:56 - The Emergence of Supergeometry- 1:27:33 - Transitioning to Gauge Theories- 1:28:11 - Exploring Singularities in Physics- 1:32:50 - The Role of Superformal Spaces- 1:36:44 - Functors and Their Implications- 1:40:51 - From Nothing to Emergent Structures- 1:43:04 - Hegel's Influence on Modern Physics- 1:54:07 - Discovering Higher-Dimensional Structures- 1:56:30 - The Path to 11-Dimensional Supergravity- 1:57:21 - Universal Central Extensions- 2:03:21 - The Journey to M-Theory- 2:11:19 - Globalizing the Structure of Supergravity- 2:15:36 - Understanding Global Charges in Physics- 2:23:31 - Dirac's Insights into Gauge Potentials- 2:30:21 - The Quest for Non-Perturbative Physics- 2:39:04 - Conclusion SPONSORS:- The Economist: special 20% off discount for TOE listeners ? https://www.economist.com/toe- Curt Jaimungal Substack: Personal writings ? https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- YouTube Membership: Early Access Videos ? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Patreon: Support TOE ? https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal RESOURCES:- Link to technical details are here from Urs Schreiber: https://ncatlab.org/schreiber/show/Peri+Pantheorias- nLab website: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage- Paper on category theory: https://people.math.osu.edu/cogdell.1/6112-Eilenberg&MacLane-www.pdf- "Higher Topos Theory for Physics" (Urs's talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD20W6vxMI4- "Higher Topos Theory for Physics" (Urs's paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.11026- Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4- Feynman's thesis: https://faculty.washington.edu/seattle/physics541/2012-path-integrals/thesis.pdf- Differential cohomology in a cohesive ?-topos (Urs's paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.7930- M-Theory from the Superpoint (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.01774- Character Map in Non-Abelian Cohomology, The: Twisted, Differential, and Generalized (textbook): https://amzn.to/4bFuz7H- TOE's String Theory Iceberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4PdPnQuwjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Curt Jaimungal talks with Harvard physicist Jacob Barandes, who proposes a wave?function?free reformulation of quantum mechanics, and with computer scientist Scott Aaronson, who offers a skeptical perspective. They explore whether the new ?indivisible? approach reshapes our understanding of reality or simply repackages existing puzzles.- 00:00 - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics- 05:40 - The Power of Quantum Computing- 36:17 - The Many Worlds Debate- 1:09:05 - Evaluating Jacob's Theory- 1:13:49 - Criteria for Theoretical Frameworks- 1:17:15 - Bohmian Mechanics and Stochastic Dynamics- 1:18:51 - Generalizing Quantum Theory- 1:22:32 - The Role of Unobservables- 1:31:08 - The Problem of Trajectories- 1:39:39 - Exploring Alternative Theories- 1:50:29 - The Stone Soup Analogy- 1:56:20 - The Limits of Quantum Mechanics- 2:01:57 - The Nature of Laws in Physics- 2:14:57 - The Many Worlds Interpretation- 2:22:40 - The Search for New ConnectionsSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount ? https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- Quantum theory, the Church-Turing principle and the universal quantum computer (article): https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall04/cos576/papers/deutsch85.pdf- The Emergent Multiverse (book): https://amzn.to/3QJleSu- Jacob Barandes on TOE (Part 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oWip00iXbo&t=1s&ab_channel=CurtJaimungal- Scott Aaronson on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZpGCQoL2Rk- Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Axioms (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0101012- Quantum stochastic processes and quantum non-Markovian phenomena (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.01894- Jacob's Wigner's Friend flowchart: https://shared.jacobbarandes.com/images/wigners-friend-flow-chart-2025- Is Quantum Mechanics An Island In Theory Space? (paper): https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/island.pdf- Aspects of Objectivity in Quantum Mechanics (paper): https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/223/1/Objectivity.pdf- Quantum Computing Since Democritus (book): https://amzn.to/4bqVeoD- The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.0159- quantum mechanics and reality (article): https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/23/9/30/427387/Quantum-mechanics-and-realityCould-the-solution-to- Stone Soup (book): https://amzn.to/4kgPamN- TOE's String Theory Iceberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4PdPnQuwjY- TOE's Mindfest playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ7ikzmc6zlOPw7Hqkc6-MXEMBy0fnZcb- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrés Gómez Emilsson, director of the Qualia Research Institute, examines consciousness from philosophical and scientific perspectives, describing his journey founding QRI to reduce suffering and enhance experience. He discusses psychedelics, the self as a series of experiences, and how sensory resonance (?impedance matching?) shapes awareness.- 00:00 - The Most Important Problem- 01:49 - The Hard Problem and Ontologies- 05:15 - Journey into Consciousness- 09:06 - The Qualia Research Institute- 10:49 - Shattering Realities- 17:12 - Happiness vs. Meaning- 19:15 - Defining Happiness- 25:28 - Psychological Egoism- 33:45 - Understanding Consciousness- 38:01 - The Qualia Research Institute's Goals- 49:21 - Exploring Impedance Matching- 58:25 - The Dance of Dissonance- 1:03:22 - The Nature of Suffering- 1:10:32 - The Concept of Oneness- 1:17:02 - Zero Ontology Explained- 1:27:20 - The Nature of Reality- 1:28:57 - The Self and Sense of Self- 1:30:53 - Stages of Consciousness- 1:37:35 - Transformations in Consciousness- 1:46:20 - The Role of Psychedelics- 2:02:01 - Exploring 5-MeO-DMT- 2:21:03 - Psychedelics and Buddhist Philosophy- 2:45:32 - Insights on Jhana States- 2:51:31 - Conclusion and ReflectionsSPONSORS:- The Economist: 20% off discount ? https://www.economist.com/toeRESOURCES:- Qualia Research Institute (website): https://qri.org/- Andres?s Qualia profile: https://qri.org/people/andr%C3%A9s-g%C3%B3mez-emilsson- David Chalmers?s 2024 presentation at Mindfest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r9V1ryksnw- Bernardo Kastrup on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAB21FAXCDE- The Hedonistic Imperative (book): https://amzn.to/3Di7Xx5- Why Does Anything Exist? (book): https://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-Anything-Exist-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0DKBHMC3C- Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha (book): https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Core-Teachings-Buddha-Unusually/dp/1911597108- Andres on The DemystifySci Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjWDURKNe2Q- ?Replications? group on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/replications/- Stuart Hameroff?s Mindfest presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_bQwdJir1o- The Doors of Perception (book): https://amzn.to/4ijduTb- From Neural Activity to Field Topology (article): https://qualiacomputing.com/2025/02/09/from-neural-activity-to-field-topology-how-coupling-kernels-shape-consciousness/- Seeing That Frees (book): https://amzn.to/43fm15m- Practicing the Jhanas (meditation series): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO6hhaAzLmiqUzBYuLLJQ8FexOTRxz8xF- The Dalai Lama, Psychedelics & Cher (article): https://tricycle.org/article/dalai-lama-psychedelics-cher/- Advice to Sig?laka (article): https://suttacentral.net/dn31/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin- Join My New Substack (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com- Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpotifyTOE- Become a YouTube Member (Early Access Videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join- Support TOE on Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices