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A podcast all about https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/ with approximately bi-monthly interviews with the Fellows

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    Constructor Theory, Module 1: The Prevailing Conception and the Big Bang

    While Newtonian mechanics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity consist of radically different conceptual frameworks and mathematical infrastructure, they are all expressible in what David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto call the prevailing or traditional conception. If you know the current positions and velocities of the planets, Newton’s laws let you calculate where they will be next year, or where they were last year. If you know the wave function of an electron and the rule governing how it changes, quantum mechanics lets you compute its entire future and its entire past. If you know the positions and velocities of two black holes at the current moment, Einstein’s equations in general relativity fix their entire evolution in spacetime — forward or backward.   Read: https://conjectureinstitute.org/courses/constructor-theory/Constructor%20Theory%20Module%201.pdf   Visit Conjecture Institute: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/   Donate to Conjecture Institute: https://www.every.org/conjecture-institute-inc#/donate/card   Follow Conjecture Institute on X: https://x.com/ConjectureInst

    13 min

  2. 22 MARS

    Constructor Theory, Module 0: Bad Arguments Against New Science

    The scope of a scientific theory is not a matter of subjective preference, and that judging a theory by its scope is a mistake. Judging a scientific theory by its structure—for example, whether or not it consists of algebraic equations and dynamical laws of motion—is also a mistake. Absent a good explanation for why a given theory’s scope is too great, or why a given theory’s structure renders it inviable, it is irrational to dismiss a theory just because its scope or structure does not meet your preferences.   Read: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/courses/constructor-theory/Logan%20Constructor%20Theory%20Module%200%20-%20Google%20Docs.pdf   Visit Conjecture Institute: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/   Donate to Conjecture Institute: https://www.every.org/conjecture-institute-inc#/donate/card   Follow Conjecture Institute on X: https://x.com/ConjectureInst

    11 min

  3. 15 MARS

    People, Reason, & Reality Part I: Reason, Module 4: Criticism Along Philosophy's Three Branches

    Philosophy is often divided into three branches: metaphysics or ontology (what is existence, why do reality’s constituent parts behave the way they do, what constrains and explains Nature’s regularities), epistemology (how knowledge grows, how people come to know what we think we know), and morality (what one should and should not do, how to choose some values over others).   Read: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/courses/people-reason-reality/Logan%20-%20Reason%20Module%204%20-%20Google%20Docs.pdf   Visit Conjecture Institute: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/   Donate to Conjecture Institute: https://www.every.org/conjecture-institute-inc#/donate/card   Follow Conjecture Institute on X: https://x.com/ConjectureInst

    9 min

  4. 5 MARS

    People, Reason, & Reality Part I: Reason, Module 3: Explanations: Good, Bad, & Constrained

    A good explanation is not only hard to vary, but it must also cohere with the rest of our explanations and actually explain what we are trying to explain.   These three constraints imply that the search for good explanations will always be nontrivial. In fact, the deeper our explanations of the world, the more constrained the space of good explanations becomes   Read: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/courses/people-reason-reality/Logan%20-%20Reason%20Module%203%20-%20Google%20Docs.pdf   Visit Conjecture Institute: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/   Donate to Conjecture Institute: https://www.every.org/conjecture-institute-inc#/donate/card   Follow Conjecture Institute on X: https://x.com/ConjectureInst

    7 min

  5. 23 FEB.

    People, Reason, & Reality Part I: Reason, Module 2: The Real Role of Evidence

    Evidence-based anything is an illusion. There is no evidence-based science, evidence-based policy, evidence-based argument (see this very paragraph).   In reality, a mind first guesses—conjectures—an idea. This could be a scientific idea, a moral idea, an economic idea, a political idea, an idea about beauty—anything.   One then criticizes it: is it internally consistent? Does it cohere with our other ideas about how the world works? Is it arbitrary? Is it consistent with our observations?   Read: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/courses/people-reason-reality/Logan%20%E2%80%93%20Reason%20Module%202%20-%20Google%20Docs.pdf   Visit Conjecture Institute: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/   Donate to Conjecture Institute: https://www.every.org/conjecture-institute-inc#/donate/card   Follow Conjecture Institute on X: https://x.com/ConjectureInst

    6 min

  6. 18 FEB.

    Taking Schrödinger Seriously, Module 1: What Is the Schrödinger Equation?

    Taking Schrödinger Seriously, Module 1: What Is the Schrödinger Equation?, by Conjecture Institute Fellow Maxime Desalle   By the end of this module, you will be able to: -Identify each symbol in the Schrödinger equation and explain what it represents, -Describe what the wave function is and why it must be complex (here, complex means ‘having both real and imaginary components’), -Explain why the equation uses only the first derivative of Ψ, and what this implies about determinism, -Read the Hamiltonian as a specification of what physical situation the system is in, and -Articulate what the equation says, and what it does not say.   Read: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/courses/schrodinger/Maxime%20Module%201.pdf   Visit Conjecture Institute: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/

    25 min

  7. 15 FEB.

    People, Reason, & Reality Part I: Reason: Module 1: The Paths to Adopting an Idea

    People, Reason, & Reality Part I: Reason: Module 1: The Paths to Adopting an Idea, by Conjecture Institute President Logan Chipkin   The relationships between errors, problem solving, thinking, and rationality are not as straightforward as common sense might suggest.   Read: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/courses/people-reason-reality/Logan%20%E2%80%93%20Reason%20Module%201%20-%20Google%20Docs.pdf   Visit Conjecture Institute: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org/

    10 min

  8. 13 JAN.

    Ep 13: Chiara Marletto

    Conjecture Institute President & Cofounder Logan Chipkin speaks with Oxford physicist and Conjecture Institute Senior Scientist Chiara Marletto about constructor theory, a theory in fundamental physics that seeks to express all of the laws of physics in terms of transformations that are possible, transformations that are impossible, and why. Logan and Chiara discuss constructor theory’s motivations, its basic structure, and its applications to the physics of information, time, probability, quantum gravity, and other areas. Visit Chiara’s website: https://www.chiaramarletto.com Learn more about constructor theory: https://www.constructortheory.org Visit Conjecture Institute: https://www.conjectureinstitute.org Donate to Conjecture Institute: https://www.every.org/conjecture-institute-inc#/donate/card

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