Brian Keating: Testing Geometric Unity & Wolfram |
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Brian Keating is an American physicist who is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences in the Department of Physics at University of California, San Diego.
Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch Keating's YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw. I highly recommend you check it out. His book Losing the Nobel Prize can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Nobel-Prize-Cosmology-Ambition/dp/1324000910/ (this is NOT an affiliate link, because I don't want remuneration to sully work I believe in) 0:00 Artificial intelligence vs Artificial wisdom 5:30 Can a mind be simulated as a machine? 10:00 Gödel's incompleteness theorem's application to physics, from an experimentalist's perspective 19:55 Experimentalists have to understand the theory more than theoretical physicists 27:20 What textbooks are there for experimental physics? 36:00 What's needed for a Theory of Everything? What's holding us back? 40:30 What are the limits of experimental physics? 42:10 Is belief in free will incompatible with reductionism? What about God? 52:00 What do you think of Eric Weinstein's Geometric Unity (TOE)? 59:00 Conclusion, and where to find more from Brian Keating |