Is There a Yes or No Question?

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An omniscient super being gives you one, and only one question about the true physical nature of the universe. But without knowing how the world works at the fundamental level, we don't even know which questions to ask. There's just a pattern that is unbreakable and perfectly reversible from past future according to our best current understanding. The arrows and causality only come about in the microscopic, emergent world.

Welcome to the July 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic.

Big news this week! Mindscape is working with Bold.org to sponsor a college scholarship for students interested in studying the fundamental nature of reality. Listeners can find more details and donate here. Our immediate goal is to raise $10,000, and I will match the first $5,000, so this shouldn’t be too hard for us here. Hopefully we can raise much more! And hopefully this will help encourage someone who might not otherwise have been able to study this kind of topic.

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