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Matt O'Dowd: Free Will, Consciousness, Spacetime, and Dualism
Episode 123
Published 3 years, 3 months ago
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Matt O'Dowd, host of PBS Space Time, discusses free will, consciousness, and spacetime, proposing a dualistic view that integrates metaphysics into scientific theory. He also talks about his upcoming film Inventing Reality and examines the hard problem of consciousness, the limits of science, and the nature of free will.
- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:02:17 - PBS Spacetime
- 00:05:38 - Inventing reality
- 00:12:52 - Scientific perspective
- 00:15:44 - Metaphysics in theory
- 00:23:23 - Material dual to consciousness
- 00:25:46 - Ought from is
- 00:32:12 - Science incomplete
- 00:55:21 - Hard problem
- 01:04:49 - Free will
- 01:37:15 - Inconsistency
- 02:00:53 - Deacon on absence
- 02:06:52 - Outro
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- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:02:17 - PBS Spacetime
- 00:05:38 - Inventing reality
- 00:12:52 - Scientific perspective
- 00:15:44 - Metaphysics in theory
- 00:23:23 - Material dual to consciousness
- 00:25:46 - Ought from is
- 00:32:12 - Science incomplete
- 00:55:21 - Hard problem
- 01:04:49 - Free will
- 01:37:15 - Inconsistency
- 02:00:53 - Deacon on absence
- 02:06:52 - Outro
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