
Sabine Hossenfelder Λ Bernardo Kastrup on Superdeterminism and Metaphysics [Theolocution]
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Intro
This chapter presents a deep discussion on superdeterminism and metaphysical idealism, highlighting their impact on our perception of reality. Featuring insights from physics and philosophy, the speakers explore the relationship between consciousness and fundamental existential questions.
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LINKS MENTIONED (soon to be titled -- give me one more day):
-Sabine Hossefelder's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder
-Testing Superdeterminism: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0286 / https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4326
-Other Superdeterminism articles: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02676 / https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01327
-Decoherence article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06282
-Bernardo Kastrup's website: https://www.bernardokastrup.com/
-No Go Theorem on Wigner: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-0990-x
-Making Sense of the Mental Universe
by Kastrup: http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2017-19/Kastrup_19.pdf
LINKS NOT MENTIONED BUT PERTINENT:
(Bernardo Kastrup recommends the below)
Papers indicating that physical realism is untrue and refuting classes of hidden variables theories:
-https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01826
-https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05677
-https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/12/12/123007/meta
-https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05080
-https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0085-3
-https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1012682413597
-https://books.google.nl/books/about/Mindful_Universe.html?id=pArDC3K3O2UC
-http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2017-19/Kastrup_19.pdf
-https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1804
-https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9806043
-https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9810080
-https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10119
-https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys3343
-https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1026096313729
-https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609002
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:16 Overview of Superdeterminism
00:08:31 Bernardo's agreements / disagreements
00:13:15 It's more promising to violate statistical independence (SI)
00:15:59 What are the hidden variables in Superdeterminism?
00:18:20 What is statistical independence? Is it a mere assumption?
00:22:41 People claim Superdeterminism isn't falsifiable, but is it?
00:31:17 Back and forth criticism and justification of proposed experiments
00:38:35 Does experiment change the outcome of what's measured?
00:41:37 Contrarian views -- should they be put forward tentatively?
00:44:57 Decoherence and the observer
00:49:22 The observer (and consciousness) is irrelevant in quantum mechanics
00:52:37 Why oppose violating statistical independence (SI)?
00:54:57 Metaphysics? Or simply trying to solve the measurement problem?
00:55:57 We don't have a good reason to depart with SI
00:59:10 Holding Sabine to higher standards than John Bell?
01:01:31 [gastronic] What is the definition of measurement / What does it mean to "look at"?
01:02:22 [Salvatore Pais] Unification of forces by means of the "Super Force"
01:05:18 [rad capsule] "Without thought, there is no science."
01:07:22 Falsifying idealism
01:11:53 Joscha Bach?
01:13:20 Notes about the upcoming Salvatore Pais interview
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