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Emily Adlam: Reality Is a Completed Puzzle, Not a Flowing River
Emily Adlam challenges time's flow, presenting an 'all-at-once' universe like a completed Sudoku puzzle. The conversation delves into quantum measure…
1 year, 6 months ago
Claudia de Rham: The Theory of Gravity That Shouldn't Exist
Claudia de Rham argues that gravity has mass, challenging core assumptions of general relativity. The conversation also explores implications for cos…
1 year, 6 months ago
Barenholtz, Hahn, Jaimungal: AI Will Put 1000 Doctors Per Person
Elan Barenholtz, William Hahn, and Curt examine how AI medical swarms could provide 24/7 personalized healthcare. - 00:00 - Introduction
- 4:43 - A Ne…
1 year, 6 months ago
Robin Hanson: The Economic Case That Aliens Monitor Earth
Economist Robin Hanson explores the provocative idea that an advanced extraterrestrial civilization may be subtly monitoring Earth, either as caretak…
1 year, 6 months ago
Michael Levin: Bioelectric Signals That Reprogram Living Organisms
Dr. Michael Levin explains how bioelectric signals govern cell communication, tissue regeneration, and intelligence across biology, and how decoding …
1 year, 6 months ago
Urs Schreiber: How the Super Point Emerges from Pure Nothing
Urs Schreiber explains how higher category theory generates physical structures from the empty set to supergravity. The discussion weaves philosophy,…
1 year, 6 months ago
Scott Aaronson and Jacob Barandes: Quantum Mechanics Without Waves
Jacob Barandes (Harvard) and Scott Aaronson debate a wave-function-free reformulation of quantum mechanics. They explore whether the new “indivisible…
1 year, 7 months ago
Andres Gomez-Emilsson: The Science of Engineered Conscious States
Andrés Gómez Emilsson, director of the Qualia Research Institute, examines consciousness from philosophical and scientific perspectives, describing h…
1 year, 7 months ago
Tyler Cowen: The Graduate Student Crisis Destroying Academia
Tyler Cowen exposes academia's graduate student crisis and argues for stronger mentorship structures. They argue for greater intellectual humility an…
1 year, 7 months ago
Curt Jaimungal: The Complete Consciousness Iceberg
Curt Jaimungal guides listeners through a comprehensive two‑hour iceberg model of consciousness, unpacking five layers that span from basic definitio…
1 year, 7 months ago