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Top Physicists Call Out Many Worlds As Nonsense | Jacob Barandes Λ Emily Adlam
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
2 hours 22 minutes
1 week ago
Top Physicists Call Out Many Worlds As Nonsense | Jacob Barandes Λ Emily Adlam
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Top physicists Emily Adlam and Jacob Barandes deliver a powerful takedown of the Many Worlds Interpretation. In this episode, they expose why it’s more philosophical fantasy than scientific theory, revealing its lack of testability, predictive power, and real-world grounding. If you’ve ever questioned whether parallel universes are legitimate physics or just sci-fi masquerading as science, this conversation will challenge everything.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
3:22 The Nature of Self-Identity
10:59 Exploring Branching Universes
12:54 Collaboration Between Physicists and Philosophers
16:51 Understanding Probability and Credence
29:12 The Role of Indexicals in Consciousness
36:36 Causation and Its Implications
45:45 Disagreement on Personal Identity
51:03 The Hard Problem of Consciousness
1:00:35 Reflections on Conscious Experience
1:08:05 Concluding Thoughts on Mind and Identity
1:08:48 Time and Mind
1:09:09 The Concept of the World Line
1:14:43 Active Consciousness and Agency
1:19:12 The Hard Problem of Consciousness
1:36:15 Emergence in Physics
1:55:46 Speculation vs. Rigorous Argument
2:06:13 Philosophy's Contribution to Physics
2:12:43 Bridging Philosophy and Physics
Links Mentioned:
• Emily’s first appearance on TOE: https://youtu.be/6I2OhmVWLMs
• Emily’s profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emily-Adlam
• Jacob’s first appearance on TOE: https://youtu.be/7oWip00iXbo
• Jacob’s website: https://www.jacobbarandes.com/
• Jacob Barandes on TOE: https://youtu.be/YaS1usLeXQM
• Against Self-Location (paper): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.05259
• Eddy Chen & Barry Loewer on TOE: https://youtu.be/xZnafO__IZ0
• Julian Barbour on TOE: https://youtu.be/bprxrGaf0Os
• Robert Sapolsky on TOE: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8
• Curt’s Consciousness Iceberg: https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk
• Iain McGilchrist on TOE: https://youtu.be/Q9sBKCd2HD0
• Stories of Your Life and Others (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101972122
• Matt Segall on TOE: https://youtu.be/DeTm4fSXpbM
• TOE’s Free Will compilation: https://youtu.be/SSbUCEleJhg
• Manolis Kellis & Jacob Barandes debate: https://youtu.be/MTD8xkbiGis
• “The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism” (paper): https://iweb.langara.ca/rjohns/files/2013/01/van_inwagen.pdf
• After Physics (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/067497087X
• Michael Levin on TOE: https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s
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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, Ai, and God in a technically rigorous manner. If you'd like to support this endeavor, then please visit the Patreon ( https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal ). Thank you for your charitable and kindhearted support. My name's Curt Jaimungal, a Torontonian with a degree in mathematical physics from the University of Toronto and I analyze various Theories of Everything from this analytic perspective, though more and more opening up to alternative approaches. The separating factor of TOE from other podcasts is its focus on depth even at the risk of limiting the audience due to how much detail we delve into subjects. Paralleling the intensity found in academic discourse, we're increasingly embracing a spectrum of unconventional ideas to conduct research during this podcast, rather than merely conveying existing information. Contact toe [at] indiefilmTO [dot] com for business inquiries / sponsorship.
