In this conversation, Sam Harris speaks with Frank Wilczek about the fundamental nature of reality. They discuss the difference between science and non-science, the role of intuition in science, the nature of time, the prospect that possibility is an illusion, the current limits of quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle, space-time as a substance, the “unreasonable effectiveness” of mathematics in science, the possibility that we might be living in a simulation, the fundamental building blocks of matter, the structure of atoms, the four fundamental forces, wave-particle duality, the electromagnetic spectrum, the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the implications of infinite space-time, dark energy and dark matter, and other topics.
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#169 — Omens of a Race War
#168 — Mind, Space, & Motion
#167 — A Few Thoughts on White Supremacy
#166 — The Plague Years
#165 — Journey into Wokeness
#164 — Cause & Effect
#163 — Ricky Gervais
#162 — Medical Intelligence
#161 — Rise & Fall
#160 — The Revenge of History
#159 — Conscious
#158 — Understanding Humans in the Wild
#157 — What Does the Mueller Report Really Say?
#156 — The Evolution of Culture
#155 — Mental Models
#154 — What Do Jihadists Really Want? (2019)
#153 — Possible Minds
#152 — The Trouble with Facebook
#151 — Will We Destroy the Future?
#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding
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