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Nicolas Gisin on Free Will, Quantum Gravity, Superdeterminism, and Time NOT Being an Illusion

Nicolas Gisin on Free Will, Quantum Gravity, Superdeterminism, and Time NOT Being an Illusion

FromTheories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal


Nicolas Gisin on Free Will, Quantum Gravity, Superdeterminism, and Time NOT Being an Illusion

FromTheories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Length:
77 minutes
Released:
Feb 13, 2022
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Description

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/jcHzgy0I6gk
Nicolas Gisin is Professor of Physics, specializing in the foundations of quantum mechanics, at the University of Geneva. Sponsors: https://brilliant.org/TOE for 20% off. For Algo's podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9IfRw1QaTglRoX0sN11AQQ and website https://www.algo.com/. 

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LINKS MENTIONED:
-Quantum Chance by Nicholas Gisin (affiliate): https://amzn.to/3KPHG8x
-Sabine Hossenfelder's Superdeterminism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyjgIyegDI

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:38 Gisin's "Quantum Chance" book is a friendly introduction to QM
00:06:36 Consciousness is outside today's physics and may always be
00:07:48 Indeterminacy is necessary but not sufficient for free will
00:09:37 Free will is necessary for "rationality" to exist
00:10:40 Free will comes FIRST in the "logical order"
00:21:39 What does mathematics have to say about free will and consciousness?
00:27:18 Intuitionism vs Constructionism
00:28:22 Classical physics is NOT deterministic
00:34:27 Does he agree with Stephen Wolfram that it's computation underlying physics?
00:36:06 Time is "thick" like molasses
00:40:21 Intuitionist mathematics and law of excluded middle
00:42:57 Graham Priest's paraconsistent logic and other forms of logic
00:49:32 A new understanding of time is needed for Quantum Gravity
00:52:55 Discrete spacetime? Perhaps not
00:53:21 Philosophy of Jules Lequier
00:55:15 On Sabine Hossenfelder's views on free will
00:58:33 Superdeterminism
01:01:52 Is indeterminacy truly necessary for free will?
01:03:39 Many Worlds is nonsense
01:05:37 Should logic be the basis of mathematics?
01:10:00 Which approach to quantum gravity does Gisin favor?
01:10:17 [Stephen Robbins] Bergson?
01:11:23 [Complex Plane @kekule6] Chomsky and denial of free will by physicists is an attempt to make evidence fit a model

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Released:
Feb 13, 2022
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Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, free will, and God. If you'd like to support this podcast, then visit the Patreon (https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal). Thank you for your charitable and kind hearted support. My name is Curt Jaimungal, a Torontonian filmmaker making a documentary on the above topics (as for what shape the final settled project will take, I'm unsure). During the exploratory phase, there will be a plethora of interviews / conversations with intellectuals placed on this channel -- approximately un-edited.