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Sabine Hossenfelder Λ Bernardo Kastrup on Superdeterminism and Metaphysics [Theolocution]
Episode 79
Published 4 years, 7 months ago
Description
Sabine Hossenfelder and Bernardo Kastrup on superdeterminism, statistical independence, and consciousness in measurement.
0:00 Introduction
4:16 Superdeterminism overview
8:31 Bernardo's agreements / disagreements
13:15 Violating statistical independence (SI)
15:59 Hidden variables in Superdeterminism
18:20 Is statistical independence a mere assumption?
22:41 Is Superdeterminism falsifiable?
31:17 Criticism of proposed experiments
38:35 Does experiment change the outcome measured?
44:57 Decoherence and the observer
49:22 Consciousness is irrelevant in QM
52:37 Why oppose violating SI?
55:57 No good reason to depart with SI
59:10 Holding Sabine to higher standards than Bell?
1:01:31 Definition of measurement
1:02:22 [Pais] Unification via "Super Force"
1:05:18 "Without thought, there is no science"
1:07:22 Falsifying idealism
1:13:20 Upcoming Salvatore Pais interview
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RESOURCES:
- https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0286
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4326
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02676
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01327
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06282
- https://www.bernardokastrup.com/
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-0990-x
- http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2017-19/Kastrup_19.pdf
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01826
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05677
- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/12/12/123007/meta
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05080
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0085-3
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1012682413597
- https://books.google.nl/books/about/Mindful_Universe.html?id=pArDC3K3O2UC
- http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2017-19/Kastrup_19.pdf
- https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1804
- https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9806043
- https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9810080
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10119
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys3343
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1026096313729
- https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609002
- http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com
0:00 Introduction
4:16 Superdeterminism overview
8:31 Bernardo's agreements / disagreements
13:15 Violating statistical independence (SI)
15:59 Hidden variables in Superdeterminism
18:20 Is statistical independence a mere assumption?
22:41 Is Superdeterminism falsifiable?
31:17 Criticism of proposed experiments
38:35 Does experiment change the outcome measured?
44:57 Decoherence and the observer
49:22 Consciousness is irrelevant in QM
52:37 Why oppose violating SI?
55:57 No good reason to depart with SI
59:10 Holding Sabine to higher standards than Bell?
1:01:31 Definition of measurement
1:02:22 [Pais] Unification via "Super Force"
1:05:18 "Without thought, there is no science"
1:07:22 Falsifying idealism
1:13:20 Upcoming Salvatore Pais interview
SPONSORS:
- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal
- Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE
- PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt
- Discord: 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
- Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything
- Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch
Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe
RESOURCES:
- https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0286
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4326
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02676
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01327
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06282
- https://www.bernardokastrup.com/
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-0990-x
- http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2017-19/Kastrup_19.pdf
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01826
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05677
- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/12/12/123007/meta
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05080
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0085-3
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1012682413597
- https://books.google.nl/books/about/Mindful_Universe.html?id=pArDC3K3O2UC
- http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2017-19/Kastrup_19.pdf
- https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1804
- https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9806043
- https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9810080
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10119
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys3343
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1026096313729
- https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609002
- http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com
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