Knowledge creation requires an intuitive leap and cannot be strictly deduced from existing knowledge.
Physicists, and other scientists, often create narratives in hindsight to explain their discoveries, but these narratives often obscure the element of 'magic' or insight involved.
David Deutsch argues that if knowledge were predictable from what we already know, it wouldn't be new knowledge.
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Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist, research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, quantum gravity researcher and an author.
There are a lot of big questions in the world, like does the past still exist? Do particles think? Was the universe fine tuned for us? Do we have free will? And are we living in a simulation? Given that we don't have answers yet, why not let a physicist have a crack at them?
Expect to learn why physicists who say they know how the universe started aren't telling the truth, whether we can compute a human brain, why no one gets any younger, if maths is the ultimate basis of reality, why there might be copies of all of us out there in the universe, how your entire life could be the imagined history of a brain floating in space and much more...