Roger Penrose: Why The Big Bang Was Not The Beginning
Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose dismantles standard cosmology, arguing the Big Bang wasn't the beginning and quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong. He then connects a real, gravitational wave func...
3 Nov 20251h 58min
Aaron Schurger: Neuroscience Does Not Threaten Free Will
The Libet experiment didn't kill free will, says professor of neuroscience Aaron Schurger; the brain's "readiness potential" is simply stochastic neural noise. We then tackle consciousness's role in i...
30 Okt 20251h 32min
Curt Jaimungal: Why I Don't Buy the Simulation Hypothesis (Nor Materialism)
I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: htt...
21 Okt 202557min
Yakir Aharonov: The Future Propagates Backward in Quantum Theory
I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE Every episode days early, ad-free, plus my essays: htt...
13 Okt 202550min
David Deutsch: Einstein Would Fail Modern Grant Applications
David Deutsch argues Einstein would struggle to secure modern research grants, exposing how funding systems favor incremental work over bold, fundamental ideas. He ties this bias to quantum computing,...
6 Okt 20252h 18min
Wayne Myrvold: Entropy Isn't Real; It's What You Don't Know
Wayne Myrvold reinterprets thermodynamics as a resource theory, arguing that the slogan “entropy always increases” follows from the second law rather than defining it. The conversation contrasts Gibbs...
29 Sep 20252h 5min
Michael Levin and Anil Seth: Your Brain Is Not a Computer
Anil Seth and Michael Levin debate whether brains are computers, how consciousness relates to substrate, and if algorithms can ever capture life and mind. Levin argues machines can access a platonic s...
22 Sep 20251h 12min
Lilian Dindo: ACT Therapy for OCD, Anxiety, and Obsessive Thoughts
Lilian Dindo explains Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for anxiety, panic attacks, and obsessive thoughts They discuss how ACT can help uncover personal values, differentiate anxiety from excitement,...
17 Sep 20251h 14min
