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How Did The Universe Begin with Dr. Brian Keating? EP02: Universe Inflation Model, Singularity...

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James Altucher

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In this episode of How Did The Universe Begin? Dr. Brian Keating and I talked about the Universe Inflation Model, Singularity, and all! What are the other alternate theories on how did the universe begin? Brian Keating is the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at UC San Diego. He hosts INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE (https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1), a podcast about science, leadership, and happiness, and is the is author of a bestselling cosmic memoir called “Losing the Nobel Prize“. You can also find his blog at https://briankeating.com/blog.php I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin

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This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:07.0

This is the James Altiger show.

0:14.0

James there's another one that's like Stephen Pinker, you know the Harvard famous Harvard

0:17.4

psychologist.

0:18.4

There's this effect that you can get people to change their mind.

0:21.6

So you say like you go out to dinner, waiter says we've got blueberry pie and we've got

0:26.2

apple pie for dessert.

0:28.0

Which would you like and then you say blueberry and then they go into the kitchen and they

0:32.2

come back out and then they say oh we also have rhubarb pie and then and he said oh in

0:37.5

that case I'll have the apple pie.

0:40.0

Like you just gave totally useless like the original choice is blueberry versus apple.

0:45.2

Then you got irrelevant information like it could be like the Padres one.

0:48.6

Oh okay then I'll change my order from blueberry to apple but it's like the additional information

0:53.8

causes this bias to the human mind that now they're going to invert it's like the prisoners

0:58.2

dilemma or something like you have to change your frame immediately.

1:02.0

Well you know there's a math problem that parallels that right?

1:05.0

The Monte Hall problem.

1:06.0

Yeah yeah yeah.

1:07.0

So I wonder if it's in the brain somehow connected that way.

1:10.2

Yeah that's interesting.

1:11.2

Yeah I mean just in terms of like there's no actual information that I can bet like literally

1:15.4

I could say there's an old Ford Model T down the street and there's also now I change

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