Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimunga‪l‬ Curt Jaimungal

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Kevin Knuth is a Professor of physics at the University of Albany, a former NASA scientist, and the Editor-In-Chief of the Entropy journal. He has a unique Theory of Everything called Influence Theory.
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PAPERS MENTIONED:Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/10/939Origin of Complex Quantum Amplitudes and Feynman’s Rules: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0909Quantum Theory and Probability Theory: Their Relationship and Origin in Symmetry: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/3/2/171A Potential Foundation for Emergent Space-Time: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0881Understanding the Electron: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07766The Arithmetic of Uncertainty unifies Quantum Formalism and Relativistic Spacetime: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202012.0603/v1The Deeper Roles of Mathematics in Physical Laws: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06686An Introduction to Influence Theory: Kinematics and Dynamics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09618
LINKS MENTIONED IN VIDEO:Kevin Knuth's card game website: https://nobilisscientia.comKevin Knuth's website: http://knuthlab.org/Steve Scully's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM8_4BUpeNfEWJ-wwdIDJxQ
00:00:00 Introduction00:04:07 The Bethune Encounter (1951)00:07:14 The lights of the UFO's are possibly due to plasma00:08:53 Why study UFO's? (and cattle mutilations)00:21:09 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 (1986)00:24:32 300 ft UFO follows one of our planes for 40 minutes00:24:12 Why is investigating aliens considered academically uncouth?00:28:13 The Nimitz Encounters (2004)00:34:41 The Tic Tac video is likely the least interesting video the gov't has00:36:57 UFO's are not simply drones or advanced gov't technology00:39:47 Why UFO's aren't studied by physicists, and who else (as a Professor) is studying?00:42:05 Is alien technology "progressing"? Why / why not?00:44:03 Why are they shutting down our nuclear missiles?00:48:14 Why don't people supposedly from the gov't who announce UFO's are real, get killed?00:50:27 UFO's should be far more technologically advanced than they are00:53:50 Theory of Kevin's that explains where UFO's go00:58:36 Why do aliens look so human (or why do we look like aliens)?01:03:08 Curt and Kevin speculate about alien intentions and relation to us01:04:33 Alien abductions01:05:47 Is Bob Lazar telling the truth?01:08:20 Skinwalker ranch01:11:06 New physics in UFO's, because they violate conservation laws01:13:49 Are aliens living on Earth? Underwater?01:20:20 Stuart Koffman and Autocatalytic sets01:21:32 Why mutilate cattle? (theory of "euphoria")01:29:46 Emergent consciousness and aliens01:31:02 Machine learning and fundamental physics01:33:06 Spectral Inference from a Multiplexing Fourier Transform Spectrometer01:36:28 Perception of sound (early research of Kevin Knuth's) and Penrose's Orch OR01:40:40 Kevin Knuth's work at NASA and questions about the spacetime manifold01:47:47 Parsimony in science leads to idealism?01:51:33 Why does 2+1=3? Building a Theory of Everything from quantification01:52:49 Effectiveness of Mathematics is no surprise01:54:28 Building "Robot Scientists" that you can ask questions to02:00:55 Influence Theory:

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Abraham "Avi" Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology.
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LINKS MENTIONED IN VIDEO:Brian Keating's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuwSteve Scully's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM8_4BUpeNfEWJ-wwdIDJxQ
TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 Introduction00:01:27 On writing to sharpen one's thinking, and the purpose of Avi's writings00:04:16 Don't let the repudiation by "experts" deter your ideas00:11:49 Academia requires other people's evaluation and conformance00:17:12 How do you allow outré ideas while retaining integrity?00:18:21 Responding to the Pluto-like rock of Oumuamua theory of Desch and Jackson00:25:37 Why is investigating aliens considered academically uncouth?00:29:16 How the discovery of intelligent aliens would change society00:30:27 How to find alien relics00:31:53 Privatizing the search for aliens, and Elon Musk00:34:03 The problems with inhabiting Mars are deeper than Musk thinks00:35:41 Sean Carole's Many Worlds Interpretation00:41:14 Are singularities "real"?00:44:13 Bob Lazar00:49:35 Cosmic Inflation is not falsifiable01:00:26 Comparing velocities across different points on a manifold01:05:56 Testing Wolfram's theory using the lower bound on masses01:07:42 Eric Weinstein and innovation coming from the outside01:12:34 Gödel's theorems and a Theory of Everything01:15:02 Science learning from religion (and falsifying religion)01:21:35 What is the meaning of life? The question Avi would ask an alien01:24:29 Living forever. Heaven and hell as psychological phenomenon.01:26:04 Consciousness, emergence, and free will01:28:46 Wormholes01:29:29 Why is the universe "fine tuned" for life?01:30:37 Wisdom vs Intelligence01:34:09 Which goal should you follow?01:36:00 Steve Scully: Infinity of smallness and largeness01:37:15 Can you interpret data without presuming a theory?01:40:02 Barfyman: How has aging changed how Avi learns new math / physics?01:42:25 Learning math when you're over 4001:43:26 Artificial wisdom vs Artificial intelligence01:44:11 Brian Keating: Does Avi Loeb dislike the criticism of his ideas, due to his fame?01:49:47 How to balance work and life if you're extremely productive and work constantly?01:51:09 Why does Avi do podcasts?01:53:09 On abnegating social media01:56:58 Rabbitskywalk3r: Claims of Haim Eshed (former Israeli director of space programs)01:57:39 On UFO's and Prof. Kevin Knuth's analysis01:59:36 Getting data on aliens visiting Earth02:01:09 Amjad Hussain: Panpsychism, proto-consciousness, and aliens living with us
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LINKS MENTIONED IN VIDEO:Brian Keating's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuwDrachma Institute (Peter Gray video on Unschooling): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_6asUmalBMm_MgerKvuHxQLetter Wiki: https://letter.wiki/conversation/1003
00:00:00 Introduction00:01:36 Behind the scenes on how the podcast is run00:02:19 [Aakash_1996] Who am I? Science Background? Dreams with the channel?00:09:02 [Account 1] Rupert Spira / Advaita Vedanta00:09:39 [Account 1] Philosophy of math00:10:50 [Account 2] Douglas Hofstadter on the show?00:10:59 [Alex Broman] What role do you see psychedelics having in our society the next 20 years00:11:41 [alexander96] Are you a gamer? What types of video games do you like?00:15:13 [Amidu Kamara] Why "ism" of consciousness do you subscribe to? Thoughts on alien abductions?00:16:29 [Anna Lukomsky] How did the podcast get started? Did you know it would change your world?00:18:52 [apostolos prl] Facebook and supporting Curt00:21:04 [Aspen French] Getting more feminists on the channel00:22:25 [Austin Harper] Free will? Aliens? God? Ego death? Perfect form of government? Panpsychism?00:24:53 [Babak Rasolzadeh] What have you learned from the brilliant people interviewed that has affected your daily life?00:26:17 [Biers Adajew] Do you see the world more clearly or are you more lost?00:28:12 [Boris Martinez] Curt's IQ / age / net worth00:33:22 [Anna Lukomsky] Is your quest for a TOE spiritual or scientific? Science 2.000:34:38 [Brandon S-P] Do you think philosophy should feature more crucially in STEM education?00:37:08 [Brandon S-P] How weird will the final TOE be for it to be the real deal (definition of Theory of Everything)00:38:51 [BubblePuppy] Have you tried getting Bob Lazar on?00:41:35 [Daniel] Views on Marxism evolved since starting the channel?00:43:08 [Dhruv Gupta] Introduction with films and interest in watching them now00:43:38 [eljay] Upbringing / parents / most significant life moments00:47:57 [eljay] Most bizarre / profound experience00:48:29 [Filip O] "Why is there something rather than nothing?"01:00:24 [Daslt Mane] Thoughts on String Theory01:01:24 [Frederik Guigui] Robert Sapolsky?01:01:31 [Game_changer0] Going against belief in order not to risk financial security / when does persuasion become manipulation01:07:48 [Game_changer0] Can we ever find the "Theory of Everything"?01:08:15 [Geoffry Gifari] On the interview "style" of Curt and abruptness of questions / transitions01:15:25 [Yoon Hur] Have you grown more sympathetic to the left, after interviewing Chomsky?01:16:25 [GL XL] Why haven't you interviewed Jason Reza Jorjani yet?01:54:15 [Grizwald Grim] How do we get on the show, if we have a TOE? How do we contact you?01:17:41 [Grizwald Grim] Which interview do you value most?01:17:57 Chris Langan and Wittgenstein's ladder01:19:33 [Hans Frankfurter] I am 36, can I still learn advanced math and contribute something meaningful?01:20:12 [Ivan Goran] Are you familiar with "General Semantics" of Alfred Korzybski?01:20:27 [ja524309] On studying math, and the research that goes into this channel01:21:25 [Johan Hedvall] Which interviews energized you and which ones drained you?01:23:49 [j

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Jonathan Pageau carves Eastern Orthodox Icons and other traditional Christian images in wood and stone. He's a cognoscenti with regard to symbolism and the West. *NOTE: This is a re-upload of a video that is approximately 2 years old.*
Jonathan's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/pageaujonathanBetter Left Unsaid (the documentary): http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com
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TIMESTAMPS BY: Cooper Sheehan
00:00:00 Introduction00:02:10 The artistry of symbolism00:03:32 History of an artist / The transition from modern to contemporary art 00:06:36 The traditional view of art (art as the tool)00:08:46 Finding a personal style in the contemporary art era 00:12:14 Is it Art? / Arts purpose (meaning/ integration) in the world   00:15:11 Modern art as destabilization 00:19:11 Contemporary art as a parody of modernism 00:21:33 The propaganda of Social Realism00:23:37 Social Realism in contemporary media00:25:36 The destruction of symbols as the restructuring of culture 00:26:49 Modern propaganda and the upside-down Fairy-tale00:30:30 Miyazaki and feminine symbolism 00:33:46 Lord of the Rings: The technological power dynamic of the Ring00:39:51 Taking in things to make us whole00:44:23 The weight of the Ring (from Lord of the Rings)00:47:23 The Little Mermaid: The transition of worlds00:53:31 Living in the moment: Nihilism 00:54:51 Cain and Able: The sin of pride01:00:23 Social revolution and the revolution of the content (happy / satisfied)01:03:37 Our society of excess01:07:46 Becoming an anchor / Truth, Justice, Civility01:10:17 Fixing the problem from the ground up and the ecological problem01:12:38 Remember the Christian story / Christianity as a way out 01:15:29 Finding one's place in life / Finding ones meaning / Jonathan Pageau finding meaning in religion for art   01:20:01 Iconography and life’s patterns  01:23:34 Symbolism life’s meanings 01:25:48 Islam and Religious expansion 01:29:15 The lenses we see the world through and Identification Theory01:35:01 The pattern of being and reality 01:37:31 Desires as pulling away from the (ones) center / Giving into desire / The right hand and left-hand sins 01:41:20 Knowing one's center01:42:21 Seeing films through a lens/ Shazam thought experiment/ Shazam and interpreting meaning  01:46:57 Reading too much into art / Hollywood film and narrative patterns 01:51:05 Personal bias in reading films / Pattern vs counter pattern 01:52:51 Introverted art vs extroverted art 01:57:08 Narrative morality / The scales of good or bad and narrative complexity 01:59:25 The framing of Christ  02:01:55 Film framing and narrative tropes 02:04:52 The Hollywood problem / The entertainment culture problem 02:06:35 When do you see the left going too far? / The world of exceptions 
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EDITED BY: Antonio Pastore
00:00:00 Introduction00:01:59 Conspectus of "Master and his Emissary" (Iain's Weltanschauung)00:09:59 What is meaning?00:12:44 On writing a 1,000 page book, and developing your own worldview00:16:19 Why is God sometimes associated with "becoming" and not "being"?00:17:46 How does the mind "bring the world about" rather than observe it?00:21:44 Existence needs resistance00:25:07 Nietzschean story of the Emissary, and the left-brain being contemptuous of the right00:29:46 Not wanting a master, speaking to oneself, and evil00:32:42 On "boredom" and the realness of time ("even God cannot exist without time")00:36:21 Why the "arrow of time" in physics? (some thoughts on Bergson)00:40:18 On Henri Bergson and flow vs slices of time00:43:52 Language is like money (the "meaning" of language)00:47:26 Music / painting / the arts be made explicit in language00:49:49 "Metaphor is a cure by language for the ills entailed by language"00:52:24 Reason is related to embodiment00:56:43 Is "logic" universal? Would aliens develop them in the same manner?00:59:05 Fantasy vs Imagination: "Original" isn't newness, but going back to the "origin"01:03:02 The more we're authentic, the more we're the same01:04:10 How can something both "be" and "not be" simultaneously01:05:33 Wissen vs Kennen (knowledge)01:06:52 On schizophrenia01:17:55 Non-rhythmic music (right brained) vs rhythmic music (left brain)01:23:04 Longing vs wanting (unification vs division)01:26:52 Should you engage with the world or disengage?01:31:20 The meaning of having "no self"01:33:28 Identifying psychological structures neurologically (ego = left hemisphere?)01:35:52 Utilitarianism, objective morals, and the left-hemisphere01:39:43 On Daniel Dennett's "Consciousness Explained"01:42:39 Writing a book about the right-brain, using your left-brain01:46:22 Mindfulness is similarly "objective" like the schizophrenic mind?01:50:03 Mixing the left and the right brain (coherent but incompatible)01:54:15 Does consciousness reside in the left or right hemisphere01:59:30 The world is not made out of "things"02:03:26 Solving the "never step in the same river twice" paradox, with "being"02:05:18 Reason / rationality in their extremes demonstrate their own limitations02:11:56 Measuring intelligence via inhibitory neurons, rather than encephalization02:12:47 Jung and McGilchrist [Sam Ford]02:18:42 "Substitution effect" and its impact to the imbalance between right / left brain in the West [Joanne Dong]02:20:57 The left / right distinction is a left phenomenon? [Ciaran Dudley]02:26:34 Left / right hemispheres mapping onto the left / right political spectrum?02:30:17 Reason vs rationality02:32:10 The right brain should be paramount, according to Jesus?02:34:01 How can something be more important than reason? Isn't that self defeating?02:37:05 How can we "transcend utility"? On the hierarchy of goals / needs02:40:15 On Chomsky and Objective Truth [Diego J. Pinto]02:47:58 On Douglas Hofstadter's analogy book "Surfaces and Essences"02:52:05 Thinking of time as a resource i

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Noam Chomsky talks about group selection, his own death, the Piraha language, and more, it his widest varied interview yet.
Iain McGilchrist's podcast: Coming next weekStuart Hameroff's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLo0Zwe579g
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00:00:00 Introduction00:02:17 Iain McGilchrist: Language without thought?00:06:54 Stuart Hameroff: X bar structure in microtubules00:11:16 Roger Penrose's Emperor's New Mind00:11:59 Veno Volenec: Derivational Theory of Complexity and Generative Grammar00:20:02 Existentialism and Kierkegaard [John Clever]00:21:00 Sam Harris and Islam [Naman Jain]00:21:54 Terrance McKenna and Stoned Ape Theory (psychedelics aiding language development / evolution)00:22:58 Group Selection [Slaventhefourth]00:23:32 Cryptocurrencies and decentralizing money [ThrowingSn0w]00:31:35 Elon Musk's Neuralink [Tarek]00:31:56 Douglas Hofstadter strange loop and generative grammar [Ryan]00:34:25 Peter Singer’s “Drowning Child” Thought Experiment [The_platypus_king]00:42:31 Steven Pinker00:43:48 Yuval Harari's Sapiens and the origin of language as introspective [Brez]00:49:50 Piraha language and Daniel Everett [Mahendra Varma]00:54:40 Karl Friston's free energy principle [MediocreBat2]00:55:03 What does Chomsky get awestruck by? [Mai April]01:03:58 Žižek / Hegel / Heidegger [Zowhat]01:06:23 What mysteries would Chomsky want solved? [Mai April]01:11:44 Open AI and GPT-301:12:22 Do you fear death? [Wil-Waal]01:12:40 How to be more like Chomsky? [Overboi1]
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