Jonathan Blow: What Game Design Reveals About Consciousness
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
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🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 219 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Jonathan Blow is a universally acclaimed video game designer and programmer |
| 0:04.0 | who's best known as the creator of the video games, Braid, and the Witness. |
| 0:08.0 | Jonathan is distinguished as a game designer in that he doesn't think |
| 0:12.0 | video games should be considered escapism or shouldn't be designed to be escapes. |
| 0:16.0 | But rather they should be experiences to advise you in your everyday life |
| 0:20.0 | in the same way that superlative literature |
| 0:21.7 | does. We touch on what creativity means, free will, physics, at least with regard to Wolfram's |
| 0:27.7 | model, and what consciousness has to do with video games and art in general. Click on the timestamp |
| 0:32.9 | in the description if you'd like to skip this intro. For those new to this channel, my name |
| 0:36.6 | is Kurt Jymungle. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm a filmmaker with a background in mathematical physics, |
| 0:40.7 | dedicated to the explication of what are called theories of everything |
| 0:44.2 | from a theoretical physics perspective, |
| 0:46.6 | but as well as delineating the possible connection consciousness has |
| 0:49.9 | to the fundamental laws of nature, |
| 0:51.8 | provided these laws exist at all and are even knowable to us. |
| 0:55.2 | If you enjoy witnessing and engaging in conversation on the topics of psychology, physics, consciousness, and so on, then check the description for an invitation to the Discord and the theories of everything subreddit. There's also a link to the Patreon. That is patreon.com slash C-U-R-T-J-A-I-M-U-N-G-A-L, Kurt-J-Mungal. If you'd like to support this podcast as the patrons and the sponsors are the only reason I'm able to do this full-time. It would be near impossible, at least for me, to have conversations on loop quantum gravity, non-dualism, consciousness, even geometric unity, with any sort of |
| 1:28.7 | fidelity, if not for your support. Thank you, and that link again is patreon.com slash |
| 1:34.1 | Kurt Jymungle. With regard to sponsors, there are two. Algo is an end-to-end supply chain |
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