Tim Maudlin Λ Tim Palmer: Superdeterminism vs. Bell's Theorem

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Tim Palmer is a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics at Oxford. Tim Maudlin is a Professor of Philosophy at New York University, specializing in the philosophy of physics. We discuss superdeterminism, chaos theory, and free variables.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Tim Maudlin's podcast on TOE: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss

Primacy of Doubt (Tim Palmer's book): https://amzn.to/3Oo55k7

Metaphysics Within Physics (Tim Maudlin's book): https://amzn.to/3pXHNcn

Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity (Tim Maudlin's book): https://amzn.to/44QoS2F

Go Fund Me for "The John Bell Institute" initiative: https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-permanent-home-for-the-john-bell-institute

Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics (John Bell's book): https://amzn.to/43RyQ2t

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:04 Explaining Superdeterminism & Fractal Cosmology

00:05:06 What is Tim Palmer working on

00:09:24 What is Tim Maudlin working on

00:11:47 Assumptions of Bell's inequality / theorem

00:22:40 Locality and Superdeterminism

00:28:33 Summary of disagreement + why do we care what Bell said?

00:32:54 Counterfactuals & Counterfactual definiteness

00:59:38 Chaos theory, attractors, and fractals

01:26:32 Free variables and ensembles

01:36:30 Invariant set theory

01:48:21 Relevant links and teaser for Part 2

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