Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Exigent Message / Introduction

00:07:25 The Free Energy Principle's TOE explained

00:15:48 The FEP explained for physicists

00:18:24 The "external world" is dual to "you"

00:24:25 Relationship between senses and actions

00:36:25 Marginal likelihood / Model evidencing

00:54:34 Change your evidence or change your model (Repression vs. CBT)

00:58:51 An exercise to show a difference in consciousness via touching one's eye

01:03:09 Science "works" by definition of "works"!

01:12:45 Advice for those trying to understand reality

01:22:45 Dealing with derealization / spiraling mentally / depersonalization

01:34:34 Don't let the social status of having "ego death" be your lure

01:37:12 Acceptance therapy (ACT from CBT)

01:43:09 Being too much in one's head (thought loops)

01:53:09 How does Karl prevent existential crises when studying these issues?

01:56:34 The benefits of tea and smoking (yes, smoking)

01:59:28 Beta-blockers and fear extinction (Merel Kindt's groundbreaking work)

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00:00 Introduction

00:03:20 Michael Levin answers: "What do you respect about Chris / Karl?"

00:04:45 Chris Fields answers: "What do you respect about Michael / Karl?"

00:05:45 Karl Friston answers: "What do you respect about Chris / Michael?"

00:07:46 Self organization / Autopoiesis / Why does life form?

00:12:11 How does cognition emerge from smaller parts?

00:14:18 Why do we see "things" independent from one another? Why in space / time?

00:18:40 Relationship between cognition and consciousness

00:22:03 The Meta Hard Problem

00:30:37 Why is complexity associated with "awareness"?

00:35:56 Is society one large brain, with each person acting as a neuron?

00:44:17 Duality between: Did you act on the world? Or did the world act on you?

00:51:32 Babbling, and becoming a "self"

01:11:22 "300 milliseconds" is a special unit of time for consciousness

01:15:49 Quantum Babbling

01:21:49 The difference between "randomness" and "quantum randomness"

01:30:03 The difference between "external" and "internal" are both real and illusory

01:33:41 Studying consciousness / the self and the concomitant existential dread

01:48:19 Michael Levin: "Something important goes all the way down"

01:51:12 Science starts with faith

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The Meaning Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ

Donald Hoffman theolocution w/ Joscha Bach: https://youtu.be/bhSlYfVtgww

John Vervaeke theolocution w/ Joscha Bach: https://youtu.be/rK7ux_JhHM4

John Vervaeke theolocution w/ Bernardo Kastrup: https://youtu.be/zw6BFDJ765w

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Donald Hoffman solo TOE podcast: https://youtu.be/CmieNQH7Q4w

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:10 Zen, intelligibility, and Neoplatonism

00:05:26 Physics and consciousness

00:07:16 Spacetime and Nima Arkani Hamed

00:09:34 What do they find impactful about one another's work?

00:14:27 What does "fundamental" mean?

00:22:08 Reality vs. Fundamentality

00:25:07 Gödel's incompleteness is NOT about TOEs

00:35:49 Science predicts its own demise

00:46:00 Psychosis, derealization, and the terror of delving into TOEs

01:08:04 Morality and "the ego"

01:08:04 Infinity and "the one"

01:28:47 Coleman Mandula theorem

01:31:59 Debate: Spacetime is real vs. unreal

01:52:03 Reality, evolution and infinity

02:08:35 Truth, misframing, and love

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-bRM1kYuNA

Chris Langan is "the world's smartest man" (highest recorded IQ) who invented the Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe. Bernardo Kastrup is a computer scientist and philosopher who is a proponent of Analytical Idealism. In this extended rerelease, Chris discusses at length his Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe. There is an additional discussion between Chris and Bernardo regarding their theories and consciousness around the 4-hour mark.

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