Curt 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 stand on a law. Sponsors: - As a listener of TOE ...
5 Nov 202518min
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 wrong. He then connects a real, gravitational wave func...
3 Nov 20251h 58min
Aaron Schurger: 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 neural noise. We then tackle consciousness's role in i...
30 Okt 20251h 32min
Curt Jaimungal: Why I Don't Buy the Simulation Hypothesis (Nor Materialism)
Curt Jaimungal dismantles both the simulation hypothesis and materialism using consciousness arguments.One week ago, I (Curt Jaimungal) was invited to Niagara University to give the Peggy and John Day...
21 Okt 202557min
Yakir Aharonov: The Future Propagates Backward in Quantum Theory
Yakir Aharonov argues quantum reality requires future states to propagate backward in time.Physicist Yakir Aharonov argues that the standard story of quantum mechanics is wrong, proposing a time-symme...
13 Okt 202550min
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, fundamental ideas. He connects this bias to quantum c...
6 Okt 20252h 18min
Wayne Myrvold: Entropy Isn't Real; It's What You Don't Know
Wayne Myrvold reinterprets thermodynamics as a resource theory, arguing that the slogan “entropy always increases” follows from the second law rather than defining it. The conversation contrasts Gibbs...
29 Sep 20252h 5min
Michael Levin and Anil Seth: Your Brain Is Not a Computer
Anil Seth and Michael Levin debate whether brains are computers, how consciousness relates to substrate, and if algorithms can ever capture life and mind. Levin argues machines can access a platonic s...
22 Sep 20251h 12min
