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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld

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

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Expos Facto - Is There Any Other Junk?

There's no other junk in the world. Other than the ordinary facts, right? There's the facts and that is what makes up the world. And so... The whole fact about the facts,right? Nothing but the facts. Right, fair enough. But there's two questions that even though I'm on this side, I really do struggle with. One is if what we think of as the laws are sort of exposed fact though, there's the world and all the facts and then we sort of abstract the laws from them, why are there laws? Why is the world so regular and predictable? That's a great, great question. If I thought it was gonna come up,

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