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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Norman Wildberger and Curt Jaimungal: Free Will, Physics, and Math

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Curt Jaimungal

Physics, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.6606 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Norman Wildberger interviews Curt Jaimungal, exploring free will, the nature of consciousness, and the interplay of mathematics, physics, and UFO phenomena while debating the risks and promises of grand theories of everything.- 0:40 - Introducing Curt- 1:44 - Film making and maths physics background- 3:40 - Curt's film Better Left Unsaid- 7:50 - Rise of intellectual podcasts- 9:53 - Theories of Everything channel- 13:59 - Role of Consciousness- 16:58 - Mathematical computational cognitive TOEs- 19:46 - Physical TOE landscape and Standard Model- 24:45 - Sociology of physics and string theory- 28:35 - Many illustrious guests- 32:43 - Exceptional objects E8 monster- 36:55 - Effective teaching and learning- 38:45 - Great Free Will debate- 47:40 - UFO conundrum- 53:50 - Probabilistic approach to uncertainty- 58:58 - Government policy on UFOs and truth- 1:02:54 - Sociological differences maths vs physics- 1:07:59 - Ignored individual TOEs, Wolfram new physics- 1:11:54 - Risks of taking TOEs too seriously- 1:17:50 - Moving forward, new episodesRESOURCES:- Norman Wildberger's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/njwildberger- Patreon for Curt: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal 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

This is an auxiliary episode where Professor of Mathematics Norman Wildberger interviewed me on February 18,

0:06.8

2022 for his channel Insights into Mathematics. The topics of this episode are mathematics,

0:12.6

why theories of everything aren't more studied in academia, and even the in vogue UFO topic.

0:18.6

The link to Norman's YouTube channel is in the description, and I recommend

0:21.6

you visit and subscribe. He makes learning advanced mathematics like algebraic topology so simple

0:27.4

that it spoils the experience of almost every other lecturer online. If you'd like to hear more

0:32.8

from the Toe podcast, then do consider going to patreon.com slash Kurtzimungle and supporting with the

0:38.3

contribution of whatever you can, as long as it's reasonable to do so, as I'm able to do this

0:43.1

only because of the patrons and the sponsors support. Also, it would be great if you could

0:47.2

review this podcast on whichever platform you're listening to it from as this greatly

0:51.2

aids distribution. Thank you and enjoy this supplementary episode taken from

0:55.4

Professor Norman Wildberger's channel Insight into Mathematics. Well, hello everyone. I'm Norman

1:01.2

Wildberger, and it's a pleasure for me to be interviewing Kurt Jiamongel, who is a Toronto-based film

1:08.6

director, producer, and also is engaged in a very interesting online YouTube direction

1:17.2

with his theories of everything YouTube channel. So welcome, Kurt, and thanks very much for

1:22.7

joining me on this little conversation. Pleasure is all mine. Thank you.

1:33.1

So I'm hoping that we can explore a number of the directions that you're interested in your channel.

1:34.9

And maybe at the end I'll be able to connect it a little bit with my interest in the sociology

1:40.1

of mathematics and maybe how that contrasts with sociology of physics.

1:46.0

But maybe a good place to start with, just with, you know, maybe tell us a little bit about

1:50.1

yourself. Obviously, it's a big story, but, you know, in terms of your, your film career and

1:57.6

the background in maths and physics, How do those things fit together?

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