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Back to SearchEp 210: Livestream - Question, Answer and repeat for 2+ hours
Episode 211
I put out a call on Twitter/@X for questions and got a deluge. Between those and more from YouTube itself - this is the result ranging over predictin…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ep 209: Rational Decision Making
Episode 210
Riffing on Karl Popper and David Deutsch (especially). A broad overview, covering lots of the basics of "social" or "rational" choice theory, Bayesia…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ep 208: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 11 ”Time: The First Quantum Concept” Part 3
Episode 209
Here we explore the distinction between classical notions of time (including spacetime physics) as approximations to how time is understood in the mu…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ep 207: Variations on a Conjecture
Episode 208
If you are distracted by, or simply prefer a version without, the background music - you can find that here: https://youtu.be/xSbqTTs1nl0
My prefer…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ep 206: Sam Kuypers (Time: The First Quantum Concept Part 3 - and more).
Episode 207
Sam Kuypers is a theoretical physicist who specialises in the physics of time. If you have the time, Sam can take up as much of it as you like tellin…
1 year, 11 months ago
Ep 205: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 11 ”Time: The First Quantum Concept” *Part 2*
Episode 206
Part 2: Time is in the instant. The instant is not in time. More on the quantum theory of time and how the "spacetime" view of time, and the flow of …
2 years ago
Ep 204: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 11 ”Time: The First Quantum Concept” Part 1
Episode 205
This is really "episode 0" but not quite because we do indeed get to some readings and unpackings of the chapter. But in the overall scheme, that for…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ep 203: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 4
Episode 204
Some more long introductory remarks and commentary throughout readings of the closing pages of the chapter culminating in the explanation of the "pun…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ep 202: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 3
Episode 203
The nature of proof and mathematics as a creative enterprise. Not all that is true can be proved as such, the high hopes of David Hilbert for placing…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ep 201: Progress: Conserving the means of Error Correction. Free Speech, Free Trade and Democracy.
Episode 202
Drawing on Chapter 15 "The Evolution of Culture" from "The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch and then applying it to some special cases.
Come a…
2 years, 3 months ago