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Peter Woit: A New Path to Unification (The Forgotten Geometry)
Peter Woit (Columbia senior lecturer, *Not Even Wrong*) on GUT/string failures and a 4D spinor/Wick-rotation approach.
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The Deepest Theories of Consciousness | The Consciousness Iceberg [Layer 3]
Curt Jaimungal explores Heidegger's Dasein, Attention Schema Theory, and Hoffman's Conscious Realism theories. The conversation also examines Nir Lah…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Slow Death of Scientific Innovation | Gregory Chaitin
Gregory Chaitin reveals mathematics' limits and academia's prison-like constraints on scientific innovation. They explore contradictions in mathemati…
2 years, 1 month ago
Proving Gravity Is Not Quantum | Ivette Fuentes
Ivette Fuentes and Sir Roger Penrose probe whether gravity is quantum using quantum information theory — exploring quantum gravity research, quantum …
2 years, 1 month ago
The Woman Who Broke Gravity | Claudia de Rham
Claudia de Rham, a leading theoretical physicist at Imperial College, discusses her groundbreaking work on modifying gravity and its implications for…
2 years, 1 month ago
Karl Friston: The Most INTENSE Theory of Reality Explained
Karl Friston, a pioneering neuroscientist behind the free energy principle, joins Curt Jaimungal to discuss how this theory reshapes our understandin…
2 years, 1 month ago
Edward Frenkel: Revolutionary Math Proof No One Could Explain...Until Now
Edward Frenkel, a leading mathematician at UC Berkeley, explains the Langlands program, its ties to physics, and the search for a single unifying for…
2 years, 1 month ago
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The Consciousness Iceberg [Layer 2]: The Hard Problem, Carl Jung, Nondualism, Buddhism
Curt Jaimungal tackles the Hard Problem through Carl Jung's insights, non-dualism, and Buddhist perspectives. We examine how these traditions interse…
2 years, 2 months ago
Denis Noble: "GENES ARE NOT THE BLUEPRINT FOR LIFE"
Denis Noble argues that genes are not a blueprint for life, challenging gene‑centric and neo‑Darwinian views while highlighting the role of systems b…
2 years, 2 months ago
Sean Carroll: The Crisis in (Fundamental) Physics is Worse Than You Think...
Sean Carroll examines why the crisis in fundamental physics is deepening, from holographic ideas to the difficulty of funding unconventional research…
2 years, 2 months ago