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Neil Turok: A Route to Quantum Gravity Without Strings?
Firstly, thank you all for you kind messages regarding my health update a few days ago.
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We're Simulated. AI Is Conscious. And We Can't Win.
The simulation, consciousness, free will, and AGI, with Roman Yampolskiy
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The Genius Who Invented Reverse Mathematics
Harvey Friedman's first and only podcast.
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1:31:14
Janna Levin on the Shape of Reality
Klein Bottles, Gödel, and the Sentence the Universe Can't Prove
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The Computational Theory of Mind Just Collapsed
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The Most Terrifying Philosopher I've Encountered
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Doesn’t Understand What “Belief” Means
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The Genius Who Invented Reverse Mathematics
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7 Signs You're Smarter Than You Think
The structure of intellectual life is set up to vaporize your confidence.
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Why write on Substack?
People often ask me about what there would be left if LLMs take over any output we want.
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Local vs. Global: One of the Deepest Patterns in Physics
There’s a single idea running through gauge theory, general relativity, topology, and even quantum contextuality: local structure doesn’t determine…
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What is Infinity, Exactly?
The different kinds of infinity explained simply...
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When Spacetime Lets You Cheat at Logic
Something you may not have heard of is Malament‑Hogarth spacetimes. Besides sounding like a holographic Yu‑Gi‑Oh card, these spacetimes allow us to…
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What is "entropic gravity"?
The story (and math) behind Erik Verlinde's finding...
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The Camel Dances
The most inspirational advice I've received
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“AI Is Physics Now” Says MIT’s Tegmark [Show Notes]
AI is taking over physics, consciousness may be next...
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Jennifer Nagel: Why Defining Knowledge Always Fails [Show Notes]
And how skepticism is a cognitive illusion generated by conversational pressure, not insight.
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The Philosopher Who Says Science Doesn't Aim for Truth [Show Notes]
Professor Bas van Fraassen’s 1980 book The Scientific Image detonated a bomb in philosophy of science that’s still reverberating.
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Language Without Meaning. Mind Without Memory. [Show Notes]
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You Don't Speak Language... It Speaks You [Show Notes]
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Stuart Kauffman: “There Is No Theory of Everything” [Transcript]
Why complexity theory and "Kantian wholes" makes reductionism flawed.
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Consciousness Is Less Emergent Than Unconsciousness | Anil Seth Λ Michael Levin [Show Notes]
Is the brain a computer with consciousness as the software? Xenobots, split-brain islands of awareness, and why LLM outputs may reveal nothing about…
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The Assumption That Made Quantum Mechanics Weird | Jacob Barandes [Show Notes]
Harvard’s Jacob Barandes shows Markovianity (not spooky action) creates the quantum‑classical divide.
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1:48:17
Neil Turok: A Route to Quantum Gravity Without Strings?
Firstly, thank you all for you kind messages regarding my health update a few days ago.
Jun 12
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Curt Jaimungal
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1:55:47
We're Simulated. AI Is Conscious. And We Can't Win.
The simulation, consciousness, free will, and AGI, with Roman Yampolskiy
May 26
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1:31:14
The Genius Who Invented Reverse Mathematics
Harvey Friedman's first and only podcast.
May 8
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1:55:49
Janna Levin on the Shape of Reality
Klein Bottles, Gödel, and the Sentence the Universe Can't Prove
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Juan Maldacena: Geometry as Entanglement, and the Emergence of Spacetime
I think you'll like this one
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“Buddhism Can’t Explain This” and other musings with Zizek
The best NON-political conversation with Slavoj, ever. ;)
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My lecture at the Mind at Large conference
The Reverse Elephant
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A rare interview with the legendary George Ellis
On free will, causation, Penrose, Hawking, and wave functions...
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