Episode 59: The Principle of Optimism (Round Table Discussion)
The Theory of Anything
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The Impossibility of Learning That Something Is Not Solvable
"One of the strongest ways you can solve a problem is to end up with the impossibility results saying the problem is intrinsically not solvable," he says. "It seems to me what both Popper and Deutsch are building upon with their claim that laws of physics are prohibitions, right? They state what can't be done." He adds: "The desire for a certain mathematical fact to be true is flawed in some way"
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