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Karl Friston on What Is Life, Consciousness, the meta-Hard Problem, and the Free Energy Principle
Episode 57
Karl Friston explains the Free Energy Principle and tackles the meta-hard problem of consciousness They explore how the principle relates to physics,…
5 years, 5 months ago
Kevin Knuth on UFOs, Nimitz / Tic Tac video, and a new kind of Theory of Everything
Episode 56
Kevin Knuth (former NASA scientist) on the Nimitz/Tic-Tac UFO cases and his Influence Theory: a novel approach to a Theory of Everything.
0:00 Intro
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5 years, 5 months ago
Avi Loeb on Aliens, Bob Lazar, Wormholes, Consciousness, SpaceX, and Many Worlds
Episode 55
Avi Loeb (Harvard) on Oumuamua as alien technology, consciousness, and free will.
0:00 Intro
1:27 On writing to sharpen thinking, and the purpose of Av…
5 years, 5 months ago
Curt Jaimungal AMA #1 (Consciousness, education, IQ, which Theory of Everything is correct?)
Episode 54
Curt Jaimungal answers listener questions on consciousness, IQ, free will, philosophy, and which Theory of Everything he thinks is correct.
0:00 Intro…
5 years, 6 months ago
Jonathan Pageau on Art, Metaphor vs. Literal, Christ, The West, and Better Left Unsaid
Episode 53
Jonathan Pageau explores the symbolism of traditional Christian iconography and its relation to modern and contemporary art. He critiques modern art …
5 years, 6 months ago
Iain McGilchrist on the Existence, Being, the Limits of Reason and Language, and Schizophrenia
Episode 52
Iain McGilchrist explores the nature of existence, being, and the limits of reason and language, while also discussing schizophrenia. He examines how…
5 years, 6 months ago
Chomsky on Terence McKenna, GPT-3, Sam Harris, Cryptocurrencies, Kierkegaard, Neuralink, and Hofstadter
Episode 51
Noam Chomsky joins Curt Jaimungal for a wide-ranging conversation that touches on group selection, his own mortality, the Piraha language, and a host…
5 years, 6 months ago
Richard Borcherds (Fields Medalist) on the Monster Group, String Theory, Self Studying and Moonshine
Episode 50
Fields Medalist Richard Borcherds talks about the Monster Group, its links to string theory, and his self‑study path in math. Also: creativity, learn…
5 years, 6 months ago
Mithuna on Quantum Immortality, Self-Studying Quantum Mechanics, PhD research, and Quantum Computing
Episode 49
Mithuna Yoganathan explains quantum immortality theory and reveals the Gottesman-Knill theorem's implications She also shares how she runs a 200k+ su…
5 years, 6 months ago
Stuart Hameroff on Penrose, Self-Similar Consciousness, and Time Travelling Free Will (technical)
Episode 48
Stuart Hameroff discusses his quantum microtubule theory of consciousness with Roger Penrose, exploring self‑similarity, Gödel’s theorem, and the har…
5 years, 7 months ago