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The Crisis of Scientific Innovation in Academia
This chapter critiques the modern academic system for hindering creativity and innovation in science. It explores the historical contradictions in mathematics and highlights the challenges faced by groundbreaking thinkers in pushing the boundaries of scientific inquiry.
Gregory Chaitin is a pioneering mathematician and computer scientist, renowned for founding algorithmic information theory. Gregory published his first groundbreaking paper at the age of 15 and has been a key figure at the Institute for Advanced Study, contributing extensively to the fields of metabiology and complexity theory.
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- Algorithmic Information Theory (book): https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Information-Cambridge-Theoretical-Computer/dp/0521616042
- Gregory Chaitin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMPnrNL3zsE
- Institute for Advanced Study (site): https://www.ias.edu/
- Joscha Bach and Karl Friston on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcQMYNi9a2w
- Brian Greene on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2EtTE9Czzo
- World Science Festival (site): https://cdn.worldsciencefestival.com/
- The Limits of Understanding (Chaitin and Minsky): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfY-DRsE86s
- Rebecca Goldstein on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkL3BcKEB6Y
- Rebecca Goldstein’s novel: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Body-Problem-Contemporary-American-Fiction/dp/0140172459
- Rebecca Goldstein’s book on Spinoza: https://www.amazon.com/Betraying-Spinoza-Renegade-Modernity-Encounters-ebook/dp/B002JKVXG4/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=rivGj&content-id=amzn1.sym.f76d456a-cb0d-44de-b7b0-670c26ce80ba&pf_rd_p=f76d456a-cb0d-44de-b7b0-670c26ce80ba&pf_rd_r=138-5679914-4668743&pd_rd_wg=AKE2J&pd_rd_r=752b687b-83e1-4181-b3e6-789765943a84&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk
- Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4
- David Chalmers’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Mind-Search-Fundamental-Philosophy/dp/0195117891
- David Chalmers on Mindfest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r9V1ryksnw
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:12 - Contradictions in Mathematics
10:56 - Generating New Ideas
21:10 - Physics in History
23:17 - Academia is like a Prison
26:09 - Philosophers and Math
37:41 - Advice for Curt
42:15 - Outro / Support TOE
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