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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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