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AMA | September 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are You Good at Doing Physics?

Some people are much better at math than others, and it's not a perfect correlation with how good you are at the physics side of things. Albert Einstein was not as good at math as Henri Pankouret, but he did better at understanding relativity because his physical insight was completely unmatched. Preston Justice says, Emmanuel Kant said in his critique of pure reason, that intuition is that through which it refers to its objects immediately. In what ways do you think Kant's description of intuition would change if he knew everything we know about the physical world today?

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