Ep 80: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 2 “Shadows”
In this episode, I read David’s explanation of the multiverse and make some remarks on it. This, more than anything in my actual physics lessons, helped me *understand* quantum theory. This, in a sens...
19 Jul 202146min
Ep 79: David Deutsch answers a question about our environment. A question for David 5.
In this question we discuss Stephen Hawking's claim that people are "chemical scum" on a typical planet orbiting a typical star in a typical galaxy and so on. How suitable is our planet for life, actu...
16 Jul 202118min
Ep 78: ToKCast's "Do Explain" Part 1
This interview can, in its original form be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6MEgZ4f7Bw “Do Explain” is a podcast interview series created by Christofer Lövgren (Chris as I call him beca...
7 Jul 20211h 35min
Ep 77: David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality" Chapter 1 "The Theory of Everything" Part 3
In this, the third part discussing the first chapter of "The Fabric of Reality" we speak more about reductionism. In particular we look at the limitations of the traditional conception of physics and ...
5 Jul 20211h 9min
Ep 76: David Deutsch and Tyler Cowen: Reaction
The video I am responding to is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_6vY... which is on the @Mercatus Center channel with Tyler Cowen. The original is well worth watching in its entirety. My respon...
1 Jul 20211h 16min
Ep 75: It's not scientific and it's not American
With a special introduction for audio only listeners, here in this "rather different" episode, I've tried tapping in to my inner Douglas Murray to summon the right level of outrage. This is about as a...
25 Jun 20211h 8min
Ep 74: Chiara Marletto's "The Science of Can and Can't" Episode 3
This episode covers chapter 2 titled "Beyond Laws of Motion?". In this chapter we explain some of the successes of the "dynanical laws + supplementary conditions" vision of physics and some of the lim...
25 Jun 20211h 2min
Ep 73: David Deutsch on "Truth". A question for David 4.
This is a question for David about Popper's notion of "verisimilitude". Can we utter the truth? What does David think about probability? Two excellent talks by David referred to in this video are the ...
24 Jun 202115min
