In this episode Donald Hoffman and Joscha Bach explore consciousness, free will, Gödel’s incompleteness, and whether reality is computational. They debate the limits of a Theory of Everything and examine how physical and algorithmic worlds intersect.

- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:03:34 - Theory of Everything possible? / Definition of Consciousness
- 00:08:32 - Spacetime's fundamental nature (or not)
- 00:14:27 - Joscha Bach on mysterianism, telepathy, and consciousness
- 00:34:40 - Joscha has a way of interpreting the Bible literally
- 00:42:01 - Physical world vs Computational world
- 00:57:57 - Gödel and changing the definition of truth to provable / computable
- 01:12:33 - Mind parts that make statements beyond computation
- 01:13:57 - Real numbers don't exist?
- 01:15:23 - [Prof. Edward Lee] Reality is not necessarily algorithmic
- 01:34:02 - Donald Hoffman on Free Will
- 01:44:03 - Joscha Bach on Free Will and whether a TOE exists
- 01:57:10 - Changes in Bach's model if classical logic was correct
- 02:07:42 - Penrose and Lucas argument regarding Gödel and the mind
- 02:13:55 - Closing thoughts from Bach and Hoffman on each other's work

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