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Roger Penrose: Why The Big Bang Was Not The Beginning
Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose dismantles standard cosmology, arguing the Big Bang wasn't the beginning and quantum mechanics is fundamentally wron…
11 months, 1 week ago
Aaron Schurger: Neuroscience Does Not Threaten Free Will
The Libet experiment didn't kill free will, says professor of neuroscience Aaron Schurger; the brain's "readiness potential" is simply stochastic neu…
11 months, 1 week ago
Curt Jaimungal: Why I Don't Buy the Simulation Hypothesis (Nor Materialism)
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Curt Jaimungal dismantles both the simulation hypoth…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Yakir Aharonov: The Future Propagates Backward in Quantum Theory
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Yakir Aharonov argues quantum reality requires futur…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
David Deutsch: Einstein Would Fail Modern Grant Applications
David Deutsch argues Einstein would struggle to secure modern research grants, exposing how funding systems favor incremental work over bold, fundame…
1 year ago
Wayne Myrvold: Entropy Isn't Real; It's What You Don't Know
Wayne Myrvold reinterprets thermodynamics as a resource theory, arguing that the slogan “entropy always increases” follows from the second law rather…
1 year ago
Michael Levin and Anil Seth: Your Brain Is Not a Computer
Anil Seth and Michael Levin debate whether brains are computers, how consciousness relates to substrate, and if algorithms can ever capture life and …
1 year ago
Lilian Dindo on Mindfulness, Acceptance, Coping with Obsessive Thoughts, and ACT Therapy
Episode 95
Lilian Dindo explains Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for anxiety, panic attacks, and obsessive thoughts They discuss how ACT can help uncover pers…
1 year ago
Andres Gomez-Emilsson: Mathematical Models That Predict DMT Trips
Andrés Gómez-Emilsson reveals mathematical models that predict the geometry and patterns of DMT experiences. They explore how color geometry, GPU‑dri…
1 year ago
Curt Jaimungal: Philosophers vs. Physicists
Curt discusses how philosophy has directly contributed to physics through Bell's theorem, decoherence theory, the hole argument, and more. He also ex…
1 year ago