Life's Mysteries, Explained By Physics - Sabine Hossenfelder - #521
Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist, research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, quantum gravity researcher and an author. There are a lot of big questions in the world, like does the past still exist? Do...
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Summary
Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist, research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, quantum gravity researcher and an author.
There are a lot of big questions in the world, like does the past still exist? Do particles think? Was the universe fine tuned for us? Do we have free will? And are we living in a simulation? Given that we don't have answers yet, why not let a physicist have a crack at them?
Expect to learn why physicists who say they know how the universe started aren't telling the truth, whether we can compute a human brain, why no one gets any younger, if maths is the ultimate basis of reality, why there might be copies of all of us out there in the universe, how your entire life could be the imagined history of a brain floating in space and much more...
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(02:53) The Problem with the Simulation Hypothesis
(11:15) How Physics Impacts Free Will
(18:13) Misunderstanding the Universe’s Origins
(27:09) Is There Something Better than Mathematics?
(32:00) The Fine-Tuned Theory
(37:45) Boltzmann Brains
(45:10) Can We Compute Consciousness?
(53:37) Where to Find Sabine
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