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Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, Gödel, and Computational Reality
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Feb 07, 2022
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2 hr 24 min
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Ep 75
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Episode description
YouTube link:
https://youtu.be/bhSlYfVtgww
Deep dive into the nature of consciousness and reality. Sponsors:
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LINKS MENTIONED: -QBism Paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5209
-Donald Hoffman's book The Case Against Reality (affiliate):
https://amzn.to/34eWmxz
-Plato and the Nerd (affiliate):
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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:34 Is a Theory of Everything possible? / Definition of Consciousness 00:08:32 Spacetime's fundamental nature (or not) 00:14:27 Joscha Bach on mysterianism, telepathy, and consciousness 00:34:40 Joscha has a way of interpreting the Bible literally 00:42:01 Physical world vs Computational world 00:57:57 On Gödel and changing the definition of truth to provable / computable 01:12:33 What parts of the mind makes statements beyond computation? 01:13:57 Real numbers don't exist? 01:15:23 [Prof. Edward Lee] Reality is not necessarily algorithmic 01:34:02 Donald Hoffman on Free Will 01:44:03 Joscha Bach on Free Will and whether a TOE exists 01:57:10 What would change in Bach's model if classical logic was correct? 02:07:42 Penrose and Lucas argument regarding Gödel and the mind 02:13:55 Closing thoughts from Bach and Hoffman on each other's work * * * Just wrapped (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid
http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com
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Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, Gödel, and Computational Reality | Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
