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Is truth universal or subjective? Explore the idea that 'there is only mind,' and how individual experiences, like a schizophrenic's vision, fit into the collective 'edifice of reason.' #Philosophy #Consciousness #Mindfulness #Psychology #Reality Full podcast with Bernardo Kastrup: youtu.be/lAB21FAXCDE
Is truth universal or subjective? Explore the idea that 'there is only mind,' and how individual experiences, like a schizophrenic's vision, fit into the collective 'edifice of reason.' #Philosophy #Consciousness #Mindfulness #Psychology #Reality Full podcast with Bernardo Kastrup: youtu.be/lAB21FAXCDE

![Physics Has a Problem With Time
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This is a podcast all about time: depending on how you look at it, thats either unnerving or exhilarating. Professor Simon Saunders — Emeritus Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and one of the most celebrated philosophers of physics alive — goes deep on what time actually is, why special relativity demands a block universe, and what any of this has to do with the Many Worlds Interpretation. Why doesnt space inherit the paradoxes of time? Whats really missing from the block universe picture (and is it the same thing missing from quantum probability?) Saunders argues that Bell inequality violations arent evidence against locality but evidence for Many Worlds, presents a novel derivation of the Born rule from a single physical postulate, and sketches a quantum version of Leibnizs monadology as a possible path through the mind-body problem. I hope you enjoy.
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TIMESTAMPS:
- 00:00:00 - Defining Temporal Passage
- 00:05:03 - Block Universe and Relativity
- 00:11:15 - The Timeless Viewpoint
- 00:18:07 - CMB and Global Time
- 00:23:19 - Persistence and Spatial Revisitability
- 00:31:02 - Philosophy of Physics Foundations
- 00:38:46 - Relativistic Localization Problems
- 00:49:22 - Reeh-Schlieder and Vacuum States
- 00:55:23 - Branching and Actuality
- 01:05:41 - Interval Probabilities and Frequentism
- 01:14:14 - Decoherent Histories Interpretation
- 01:25:49 - Ontic Structural Realism
- 01:32:15 - Deriving the Born Rule
- 01:38:02 - Leibnizian Quantum Monadology
LINKS MENTIONED:
- Simons Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=htEv3XIAAAAJ
- Many Worlds? [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0199560560?tag=toe08-20
- A Brief History of Time [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0553380168?tag=toe08-20
- How Relativity Contradicts Presentism [Paper]: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~lina0174/kansas.pdf
- Trouble With Quantum Mechanics [Article]: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/01/19/trouble-with-quantum-mechanics/
- Locality, Complex Numbers, and Relativistic Quantum Theory [Paper]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/192768
- Bohmian Mechanics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/
- Finite Frequentism Explains Quantum Probability [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12954
- Chance in the Everett Interpretation [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04720
- Reeh-Schlieder Defeats Newton-Wigner [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0007060
- Everetts Thesis [Paper]: https://cqi.inf.usi.ch/qic/everett_phd.pdf
- Physics and Leibnizs Principles [Paper]: https://philpapers.org/rec/SAUPAL-2
- Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/1605204536?tag=toe08-20
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