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#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Importance of Pursuing a Theory of Everything

The pursuit of a theory of everything becomes like a drug to the human ego that's right so it is a huge motivating factor I don't deny that but there are better ways to motivate people then this way okay. Even if in that framework a new theory could lead to an explanation of some some new explanation of some phenomena it would still be incomplete in a sense because it wouldn't be mathematical rigorous you see what I meanbecause the whole framework is not yet on on a firm foundation, he says.

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