In this episode Curt Jaimungal interviews physicist Nicolas Gisin about free will, consciousness, and the nature of time, arguing that time is not an illusion. They discuss quantum chance, superdeterminism, and Gisin’s views on quantum gravity and the logical foundations of physics.
- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:03:38 - Gisin's "Quantum Chance" book is a friendly introduction to QM
- 00:06:36 - Consciousness is outside today's physics and may always be
- 00:07:48 - Indeterminacy is necessary but not sufficient for free will
- 00:09:37 - Free will is necessary for "rationality" to exist
- 00:10:40 - Free will comes FIRST in the "logical order"
- 00:21:39 - What does mathematics have to say about free will and consciousness?
- 00:27:18 - Intuitionism vs Constructionism
- 00:28:22 - Classical physics is NOT deterministic
- 00:34:27 - Does he agree with Stephen Wolfram that it's computation underlying physics?
- 00:36:06 - Time is "thick" like molasses
- 00:40:21 - Intuitionist mathematics and law of excluded middle
- 00:42:57 - Graham Priest's paraconsistent logic and other forms of logic
- 00:49:32 - A new understanding of time is needed for Quantum Gravity
- 00:52:55 - Discrete spacetime? Perhaps not
- 00:53:21 - Philosophy of Jules Lequier
- 00:55:15 - On Sabine Hossenfelder's views on free will
- 00:58:33 - Superdeterminism
- 01:01:52 - Is indeterminacy truly necessary for free will?
- 01:03:39 - Many Worlds is nonsense
- 01:05:37 - Should logic be the basis of mathematics?
- 01:10:00 - Which approach to quantum gravity does Gisin favor?
- 01:10:17 - [Stephen Robbins] Bergson?
- 01:11:23 - [Complex Plane @kekule6] Chomsky and denial of free will by physicists is an attempt to make evidence fit a model
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