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Science, reality and knowledge
The universe, mathematics and the limits of knowledge
Questions about mind lead quickly to questions about the world the mind lives in. This section collects conversations on physics, cosmology, mathematics and the scientific method: what space and time are, whether the universe can be described in numbers alone, where science's reach ends, and how to tell good reasoning from bad.
Some guests argue that science has been most successful by leaving the observer out, which leaves a gap where experience should be. Others defend the idea that physics, extended far enough, will explain minds too. There are conversations about quantum theory and what it says about observation, about the search for life elsewhere in the universe, and about why people so readily believe things that are false.
Dr Naidu's interest is practical as well as philosophical. Medicine depends on evidence, and a doctor needs a sense of what evidence can and cannot establish, how scientific consensus shifts, and where claims outrun the data. Listening to physicists and philosophers argue about those limits is a useful discipline for anyone who reads health news.
Episodes are listed newest first. This is general discussion, not medical advice.
Episodes on this topic.
Adam Frank
Is Science Blind to Human Experience? Rethinking Life, Mind, the Universe and Meaning
Length 56 min
Donald Hoffman & Karl Friston
What is Ultimately Real? Consciousness, Free Energy & Spacetime
Length 2 hr 40 min
Mind-at-Large Project
The Meaning Crisis, Process Cosmology & Whitehead's Universe
Length 1 hr 39 min
Dr Tevin Naidu
Introducing the Mind-at-Large Project: A New Paradigm in Consciousness Research
Length 1 hr 51 min
Ruth Kastner
What is Quantum Reality? Consciousness, Beyond Spacetime & Into Possibility
Length 1 hr 10 min
Suzanne Gildert
Can We Engineer Consciousness? Quantum Physics, Robotics & Conscious AI Technology
Length 1 hr 35 min
Matthew Segall
Is the Universe Ensouled with Experience? Consciousness, Cosmology, and Meaning
Length 1 hr 19 min
Tom Campbell
Are We Living In A Simulation? Consciousness & A Theory Of Everything
Length 3 hr 27 min
Chris Fields
What is a Theory of Consciousness for? Quantum Mechanics, Minds & Minimal Physicalism
Length 1 hr 13 min
Federico Faggin
What is the One Consciousness? Bridging the Gap between Quantum & Classical Reality
Length 1 hr 45 min
Brian Keating
What Is Space, Time, & Matter? The Origin & Evolution Of The Universe
Length 1 hr 14 min
Curt Jaimungal
What Is A Theory Of Everything? Theories Of Everything /\ Mind-Body Solution
Length 2 hr 35 min
Michael Shermer
Why Do The Rational Believe The Irrational? Biases, Fallacies, & Skepticism 101
Length 2 hr 10 min
Manil Suri
Can We Build The Universe Using Only Math? The Big Bang Of Numbers
Length 1 hr 12 min
Lawrence Krauss
Does Science Need Philosophy? The Unbelievers, Known Unknowns & Edge Of Knowledge
Length 1 hr 1 min
Jude Currivan
Is The Universe A Cosmic Hologram? The Holographic Principle & Infodynamics
Length 1 hr 15 min