AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
Princeton Talk That Ended With Laughter
- R. Jay Wallace's Princeton talk accidentally read as 'pe' provoked laughter from David Lewis and others in the audience.
- Wallace later reflected that Lewis found the misreading hilarious and giggled through the Q&A and reception.
A Sudden Night That Was His Last
- After the delayed dinner, David Lewis left abruptly to avoid diabetic shock and was later found dead at home the same night.
- Steffi Lewis described his death as sudden coronary heart failure related to his diabetes.
People As Four‑Dimensional Worms
- Lewis defends a four-dimensional 'space-time worm' view where persons are extended across time, not three-dimensional subjects.
- This view resolves time travel identity paradoxes by treating different ages as temporal parts of one continuous person.