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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Tevin and Curt Jaimungal: Consciousness, Podcasting, and UFOs

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Curt Jaimungal

Physics, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.6606 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Curt Jaimungal sits down with Tevin Naidu to discuss consciousness, the art of podcasting, and the mystery of UFOs. The conversation explores how awareness shapes storytelling and what unexplained phenomena reveal about reality.SPONSORS:- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!)- Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE- PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE- TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerchRESOURCES:- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-tnoEUZQqk- Please consider signing up for TOEmail at https://www.curtjaimungal.org- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoriesofeverythingpod- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theoriesofeverything_- 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 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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1:13.6

So in the physics sense, it just means that there are some fundamental rules to the universe, usually mathematical,

1:24.6

and these are what underpin every other phenomenon that we see.

1:29.8

Now, phenomenon in the physical sense, maybe consciousness is not considered to be a part of the physical.

1:35.5

That's people put it as, people put asterisks on that called the hard problem or the mind-body problem,

1:42.6

which is the hard problem is like a rebranding of the mind-body

1:46.4

problem that somehow he got away with.

1:48.4

And everyone applauds it as if it's completely original.

1:52.6

But anyhow, many people can think of go.

1:57.1

There's a game called go or chess.

1:59.8

And what we see are castling and we see odd moves here

2:03.7

and there we don't know how does that come about we see the large scale strategies like okay control

2:12.7

the center maybe we see that maybe that's something reducible like that's force f equals m a but then what underlies

2:19.5

that you can move upon forward by one or two but only two in the beginning so there's all these

2:25.5

exceptions like at first in the 40s or 50s there was someone named woo who found that the that right-handed

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