Sabine Hossenfelder on Theories of Everything, Consciousness, and Truth

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, is a repudiator of your Theory of Everything, and is the author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray. Subscribe at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w for more weekly conversations with intellectuals.

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0:00 Introduction to Sabine Hossenfelder
1:01 On superfluid dark matter
4:04 On Sabine's YouTube channel (I recommend you subscribe to it)
7:19 What is particle phenomenology
8:49 Eric Weinstein's and Stephen Wolfram's "Theory of Everything"
11:21 Too much time has been spent on String Theory
12:25 How does Sabine define a "Theory of Everything"
16:30 Which "Theory of Everything" Sabine likes most (plus brief comments on Lisi's E8)
20:22 On strong emergence
28:00 Lee Smolin's principle of precedence
29:18 Free will and strong emergence
32:20 Sabine's belief in God, and free will (one word answers)
32:53 Superdeterminism and Bell's inequality
37:42 Consciousness' derivation
42:33 On the Mind / Body problem
43:05 Sabine's view of art and music (and which programs she uses)
45:55 The structure of Sabine's days
46:42 How (specifically) does Sabine study physics / perform work?
54:38 Are scientific truths the only truths?
57:43 Metaphysics vs physics
59:25 Weinstein's suggestion that the 3 main equations in physics are the "simplest"
1:02:37 What's the experience of a photon? (that which has no time)
1:03:57 Where to find out more about Sabine Hossenfelder
1:06:52 Other logical systems different than classical
1:08:20 Myths in physics from the science popularizers

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