Episode description
An assortment of topics looking forward to 2025.
Timestamps:
00:00 Truth is indispensable
04:06 The “search for truth” is error correction
08:11 Remarks on selflessness and personhood. How can we square the two?
09:14 Decisions and free will and creativity
10:46 Truth and the two senses of “believe”.
13:30 Belief, epistemology and psychology
17:16 “Popperian” knowing.
18:07 Newtonian Gravity I
23:53 Why GR and QM do not mesh.
26:57 Newtonian Gravity II
27:43 Knowledge is…
29:11 Knowledge creation, reason, rationality and reality.
31:11 Reason, Creativity, Fun and Flow States
36:13 Learning is knowledge creation
39:06 Selfishness and having fun
42:53 Fun, innovation, wealth and value
43:51 Wealthy people create value
48:17 Creativity, Wealth and energy
52:27 Optimism about 2025