Fidias and Curt Jaimungal: Podcasting, Free Will, and Morality

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Curt Jaimungal

Physics, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Fidias Panayiotou, fresh off a Guinness record for the longest continuous VR session, sits down with Curt Jaimungal to discuss podcasting, free will, and morality. The conversation also reflects on the challenges of a 30‑day VR experiment and what it means to be the final activity before ending the immersion.RESOURCES:- Fidias YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FidiasPanayiotou- Interview video: https://youtu.be/cUmZywem8VE Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal features long-form, technically detailed interviews with leading researchers in physics, mathematics, consciousness, and philosophy, exploring topics at the level of active research. For academics, graduate students, and anyone seeking depth beyond popular science. SPONSOR: I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE FOLLOW: Substack | Spotify | YouTube | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are two things that are absolutely true.
0:03.2	Grandma loves you, and she would never say no to McDonald's.
0:06.8	So treat yourself to a Grandma McFlurry with your order today.
0:10.0	It's what Grandma would want.
0:11.4	At participate in McDonald's for a limited time.
0:16.3	A popular YouTuber named Fiddeus, who has over 2 million subscribers,
0:19.9	just got the Guinness World
0:21.0	record for the longest time spent consecutively in VR. Congratulations to him. It was an experiment
0:26.2	where he was under VR for 30 days straight. I don't know how he did it, but on his last hour,
0:31.3	he interviewed me for his channel. It was an honor, not only to be included in such a challenge,
0:35.7	but to be the last activity that he did prior to removing his VR goggles. Enjoy this episode where Fiddeus interviewed me for his channel. Links to his socials are in the description. If you enjoyed this and you would like to hear more from me, then there are a couple examples of me being interviewed. One is coming up. You've heard me interviewed Jesse Michaels. Well, Jesse Michaels interviewed me one year, and we're going to be mirroring it on this platform. Also, there are Ask Me Anythings. And you can just search on YouTube or hear AMA's Kurt. I have no interest in speaking to Joe Rogan or Andrew Huberman. And not that I have anything against him. It's just I have no interest in it. There's this popularizer of science
1:11.1	named Neil deGrasse Tyson. I find that what he does is give the high school explanation,
1:15.1	sometimes even the middle school explanation of some phenomenon. And then you're left wondering,
1:18.9	what the heck does that even mean? It gets you excited about science, but then it actually doesn't
1:22.4	teach you science. It's positive in some ways, but I prefer the more precise statements.
1:26.6	Of this podcast thing, how did it affect you and your personal life?
1:32.1	I'm so lonely. So, I have a wife and I love my wife, but we don't discuss the ideas on the
1:39.3	podcast because she just finds them incredibly boring. Yeah, and in many ways it's not been
1:43.7	pleasant psychologically.
1:45.0	It's unsettling.
1:46.0	And I lose sleep all the time.
1:48.0	My mind is racing.
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