This episode is focussed on the physics content of chapter 1. I explain what the current “conception” of physics is in terms of dynamical laws and initial conditions. I run through a simple example of how equations of motion are used and discuss how this has been, hitherto, the way physics has been done, is done and is expected to continue to be done according to most philosophers and physicists. We then compare this vision of physics to what constructor theory aims to achieve by considering more than just a single thread through the fabric of reality (what was, is and will be) and instead to consider what might have been and might still be. This clearly has implications for knowledge and, again, we hint at the possibility of a physics of epistemology. It also opens up the possibility for physics to address questions about why the initial conditions are the way they are and thus provides a new window into the origins of the universe and the problem of "fine tuning" when it comes to the constant of nature and the form of the physical laws.
Ep: 108 Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality”Chapter 3 ”Logic and Critical Thinking” - reflections and analysis.
Ep 107: What is a good explanation?
Ep 106: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 2
Ep 105: David Deutsch’s “The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 1
Ep 104: Are We Running Out Of Resources?
Ep 103: Ask Me Anything #2
Ep 102: The Thin Veneer
Ep 101 Ask Me Anything 1
Ep 100: David Deutsch
Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes
Ep 98: ”Knowledge” Chiara Marletto‘s ”The Science of Can and Can‘t” Ch 5 Readings and discussion.
Ep 97: David Deutsch answers a question about dark energy. A question for David number 10.
Ep 96: Computational Universality: Yaron Brook vs Sam Harris response
Ep: 95 Steven Pinker‘s ”Rationality” Chapters 1 & 2 Remarks and Analysis
Ep 94: Wealth and the Conflict of Ideas
Ep 93: David Deutsch answers a question about the nature of mind. A question for David number 9.
Ep 92: David Deutsch answers a question about observations. A question for David number 8
Ep 91: David Deutsch‘s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 3 “Problem Solving” Part 2
Ep 90: Fallibilism
Ep: 89 ”Quantum Information” Chiara Marletto‘s ”The Science of Can & Can‘t” Ch 4 readings and discussion
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