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Recommended Watch: Are We Living In A Simulation? - Sabine Hossenfelder | Modern Wisdom Podcast 521 (youtube.com)
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? Does free will exist? Will we ever have a theory of everything? Are we living in a simulation? And 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...

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00:00 Intro
02:53 The Problem with the Simulation Hypothesis
11:15 How Physics Impacts Free Will
18:13 Misunderstanding the Universe’s Origins
27:09 Is There Something Better than Mathematics?
32:00 The Fine-Tuned Theory
37:45 Boltzmann Brains
45:10 Can We Compute Consciousness?
53:37 Where to Find Sabine

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    Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst The problem with Physics is that whenever we think we already have found the truth, something tell us there is another mystery behind, much more difficult to grasp even before we try to understand, and that we have to conquer slowly. Some are saying that at this stage of Physics knowledge we can't do beyond speculation based on possible theories which can't really be proved yet and some maybe won't be ever proved. Sabine Hossenfelder is one of those theorists which use common sense and facts to talk about what new Physics is about, what we know, what we don't know, what can we speculate which can be true, and what is pure speculation without any foundation in what we consider (for now) reality. The conclusion is that we have more questions than answers, but we are pushing the boundaries according to our human understanding. Do we live in a simulation? Maybe. Maybe not. What is consciousness then? What about free will? Live in a simulation can explain the Fine-Tuned Theory? This and more in this fascinating podcast.