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Donald Hoffman Λ Joscha Bach on Consciousness, Free Will, Gödel, and Computational Reality

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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The Insurmountable Problem of Continuity in Physics

The speaker initially believed that continuity must exist since most physicists assume it does./nThe inability to derive continuity led the speaker to realize that it can't exist./nGirdle's insight was that continuity cannot exist because it's not constructive./nThe presence of infinites leads to unusual phenomena such as Hilbert's hotel, where infinitely many new people can be accommodated by asking everyone to move./nThis type of accommodation is not a feature but a drawback since it doesn't correspond to real-world hotels.

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