Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCurt Jaimungal: Can Physics Explain Its Own Laws?
Why do physical laws have their specific form? Host Curt Jaimungal shows this question is a philosophical knot, because any "explanation" must itself…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Aaron Schurger: "No. 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…
5 months ago
Curt Jaimungal: Why I Don't Buy the Simulation Hypothesis (Nor Materialism)
As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe One week ag…
5 months, 1 week ago
Yakir Aharonov: The Future Propagates Backward in Quantum Theory
As a listener of TOE you can get a special 20% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toe Physicist Y…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
David Deutsch: Einstein Would Fail Modern Grant Applications
David Deutsch argues that Einstein would struggle to secure modern research grants, exposing how funding systems favor incremental work over bold, fu…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Wayne Myrvold: A 2 Hour Deep Dive Into Entropy
Wayne Myrvold reinterprets thermodynamics as a resource theory, arguing that the slogan “entropy always increases” follows from the second law rather…
6 months ago
Michael Levin Λ Anil Seth: Your Brain Isn’t a Computer and That Changes Everything
Anil Seth and Michael Levin debate whether brains are computers, how consciousness relates to substrate, and if algorithms can ever capture life and …
6 months, 1 week ago
Lilian Dindo on Mindfulness, Acceptance, Coping with Obsessive Thoughts, and ACT Therapy
Episode 95
In this episode Curt Jaimungal talks with Professor Lilian Dindo about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and its use for anxiety, panic attacks…
6 months, 1 week ago
Andrés Gómez-Emilsson: The Mathematics That Predicts Your DMT Trip
In this episode, Curt talks with Andrés Gómez‑Emilsson of the Qualia Research Institute about mathematically modeling consciousness and visualizing p…
6 months, 1 week ago