Sabine Hossenfelder: Superdeterminism & Geometric Unity

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, is a repudiator of your Theory of Everything, and is the author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray. Subscribe at / @theoriesofeverything for more weekly conversations with intellectuals.
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0:00 Introduction to Sabine Hossenfelder
1:01 On superfluid dark matter
4:04 On Sabine's KZbin channel (I recommend you subscribe to it)
7:19 What is particle phenomenology
8:49 Eric Weinstein's and Stephen Wolfram's "Theory of Everything"
11:21 Too much time has been spent on String Theory
12:25 How does Sabine define a "Theory of Everything"
16:30 Which "Theory of Everything" Sabine likes most (plus brief comments on Lisi's E8)
20:22 On strong emergence
28:00 Lee Smolin's principle of precedence
29:18 Free will and strong emergence
32:20 Sabine's belief in God, and free will (one word answers)
32:53 Superdeterminism and Bell's inequality
37:42 Consciousness' derivation
42:33 On the Mind / Body problem
43:05 Sabine's view of art and music (and which programs she uses)
45:55 The structure of Sabine's days
46:42 How (specifically) does Sabine study physics / perform work?
54:38 Are scientific truths the only truths?
57:43 Metaphysics vs physics
59:25 Weinstein's suggestion that the 3 main equations in physics are the "simplest"
1:02:37 What's the experience of a photon? (that which has no time)
1:03:57 Where to find out more about Sabine Hossenfelder
1:06:52 Other logical systems different than classical
1:08:20 Myths in physics from the science popularizers
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[@TheoriesofEverything]

NOTE: The link to Sabine's KZbin channel is incorrect in the video, and the proper one is here: kzbin.infovideos

[@tobiaswilhelmi4819]

I'd love to have a list of books mentioned in the video. Also a possibility for affiliate links.

[@GJ-dj4jx]

That mask on her face looks sad. Is she sick?

[@woodandwandco]

I would love to see that interview with Rupert Sheldrake you mentioned in the interview! Any chance you will publish it soon or has it yet to be recorded?

[@curtjaimungal]

@@woodandwandco kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZSzZ32Jrs6Wj5I

[@woodandwandco]

@@curtjaimungal thanks!

[@PatsyC57]

I discovered her two weeks ago, I am far away from physics, I am a grandma and an artist but I like learning about the universe and I like the way she explains things.

[@TheoriesofEverything]

I'm glad!

[@Vlasko60]

I can't believe I just discovered her. What an interesting person.

[@jherbranson]

Don't know if you've discovered yet or not, but she has a really good KZbin channel (just her name: Sabine Hossenfelder) where she hosts tons of physics presentations. Highly recommended, worth every minute.

[@Vlasko60]

@@jherbranson Thank you.

[@richardnicholas2957]

Since I discovered her about a month ago her voice is playing in my car almost every day. Check out her channel. Every video is excellent.

[@factstrumpprejudice6740]

I've just recently come across this excellent communicator, making physics understandable is clearly a gift.

[@svenhaadem]

The problem for me with her is her hard materialistic stand, ignoring the philosophical foundation of science. Even calling people open for there being space for free will stupid. Watch her video on free will. I don’t care about her stance on free will but I do get frustrated when a scientist blatantly claims this is how things is. It might be that the video was made on a “bad” day for here, and I should give her some slack. In other videos she seems to take a more open minded views, at least leaving room for others views.

[@sistersatan]

I love Sabine and as a simple minded layman, I really appreciate what she is doing. She helps me have a better model of the world the universe and reality in my head without all that confusing scientific stuff. She breaks everything down to where people who aren't scientists can understand. She is a great communicator. Keep it up Sabine, I love what your doing.

[@sistersatan]

Also I love her music videos they are great! Huge fan

[@felixeschment7257]

Hands down the best KZbin video I’ve watched in quite a while.

[@mosijahi3096]

Do you understand what she’s saying? Are is this mental gymnastics that make you feel smart?

[@johnmqueripel2367]

This woman is great, her delivery is interesting and straight forward and has a genuine desire to pass on her knowledge and her songs are just the cherry on the cake!

[@PolaOpposite]

Which groundbreaking research has she done that raises her status to greatness?

[@aldrichemrys]

Rumpled Trumpskin Her philosophy of science work: _”Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray”_

[@PolaOpposite]

@@aldrichemrys I'm not sure how to respond to someone who confuses groundbreaking research with an expository/persuasive pop science book. It's as if you're unable to differentiate between a book written for laypeople with the likes of Dalton's Atomic Theory, Hawking Radiation, General Relativity, Uncertainty Principle, or Maxwell's Equation. Egads! the book's not even a New York Times best seller.

[@aldrichemrys]

@@PolaOpposite I am also not sure how to respond to someone that thinks that 'Philosophy of Science' is the same as 'scientific theories' that you posited under the guise of groundbreaking research.

[@PolaOpposite]

@@aldrichemrys Here's the thing, she is assailing the works of giants in the field theoretical physics without giving viable alternatives. Now understand that not even Einstein is above reproach. The merits of a body of work stand for themselves. The problem is that she has no credentials or work behind her that places her in a position to lead the charge. She's a fellow in a physics department studying Analog Systems for Gravity Duals with a pop culture following. She's not qualified to make the judgments she's making. She's a firebrand bent on making her living off of stirring up controversy in a field that typically works collaboratively. The way to go about questioning works is the now famous public discussions between Stephen Hawking and Leonard Susskind. It was contentious, but also respectful and productive; they were in fact colleagues and friends. It wasn't someone in the peanut gallery taking potshots to garner book sales.

[@oceanlawnlove8109]

YESSS SHE'S FINALLY DOING A LOT OF INTERVIEWSSSSS I hope she gets on mindscape too :)

[@johntavers6878]

mindspring best email every

[@EliSantana]

Sean is terrified of Sabine

[@oceanlawnlove8109]

@@EliSantana source?

[@emhome924]

@@EliSantana as long as he uses phrases like "if you believe that.. blablabla" than he should be terrified of Sabine 😆

[@svenhaadem]

Can someone tell me what is so exiting? She seems to be very closed minded, and I have even seen her calling people not agreeing with her stupid. It’s not a good way of presenting science to people that are sceptical. She claims to be a science communicator, that’s sets the bar high on how you should behave. Look at the US, the increasing hate towards science, she should try to close the cap, not increase it.

[@dandeeteeyem2170]

I love Sabine, and hope she is successful after spending so much of her life at the forefront of theoretical physics. She communicates what she does so well too.. ❤️

[@theshermantanker7043]

While she is a very respectable scientist she does have one big flaw: Painting everything that she doesn't agree with, especially on topics she feels strongly about, as nonsensical and outright idiotic, and the people behind those ideas as morons who outright don't deserve their degrees in their respective fields. To be fair, although this is a very common weakness among scientists, they usually argue very loudly when they have these sorts of disagreements, but Dr. Sabine does it in an extremely passive aggressive and implicit manner, which is what truly rubs me the wrong way

[@nmcborst]

Excellent! Thanks for including the bonus questions.

[@bruceylwang]

I like her. Beyond her open-minded and critical thinking attitude, she helps people connect higher science to daily life.

[@mosijahi3096]

Critical thinking is subjective doesn’t mean you will get appropriate results, there’s a time and place for it of course, but over thinking can cause mental paralysis, especially if you have to actually use your body to complete a task or demonstrate proficiency. You have to pick the appropriate time for critical thinking. Lastly , higher science is daily living and daily living is higher science.

[@svenhaadem]

On her channel she actually comes of as closed minded. She calls people believing in free will stupid. Watch the video on free will.

[@Astrophile2345]

@@mosijahi3096 U are making no sense budd💀

[@mosijahi3096]

@@Astrophile2345I get it no problem, that’s because it’s not your typical way of understanding.

[@Astrophile2345]

@@mosijahi3096 lol

[@jonbikaku6133]

Wow, first time I stumbled here following Sabine's other videos and I'm amazed by the high quality of scientific content here. Thanks to both of you and few others for having such amazing channels!! ❤️

[@LettersAndNumbers300]

Sabine is great and pleasant to listen to.

[@phillisetodd]

This is the best interview I've seen yet with Sabine - very accessible. You ask great questions and have such an engaging and friendly conversational style - it's refreshing. I'm so happy to have found your channel through following Sabine. Thanks!

[@abouttime5630]

It is rare to find such deep discussions for the sake of them. Incredible job! Thank you!

[@alancham4]

What I love about Sabine is that she doesn’t stray into woo.

[@Chayonray]

Great questions Sir. Sabine was certainly not bored by them and you certainly had her thinking on a variety of them.

[@mssamsung7651]

She has changed from academic to u-tube talking to singing and responding to interview and sounds more inclined to philosophical and a critic ..Versatile.Very interesting persinality. A rare .not a minute bored..big wow.

[@colinadevivero]

Curt, excellent interview. You are mastering the art of asking probing questions without derailing the flow of the conversation. Congratulations 🎉

[@notlessgrossman163]

I watch Sabine every Saturday. Lots of interesting topics.

[@Thomas-gk42]

In my opinion, Dr. Sabine is one of the most brilliant and original scientists and thinkers, humanity can count on actually. She's brave enough to polarize, and that's exactly what is needed today.

[@DavidG2P]

I listen to Sabine's videos (at 75% speed) every night and fall asleep very comfortably - because I got bored with ASMR after many years. I believe that this makes me grasp difficult things like Superdeterminism and Entanglement quite effortlessly after a couple nights 😴💤🤯

[@yr-qb4hu]

whenever she smiles or giggles, which i have never seen in her videos, i am so happy

[@TheoriesofEverything]

It's certainly nice to see

[@HonzaKuranda]

It's a pleasure to watch talk between 2 bright minds. Very good questions and answers, thank you. And big respect to Prof. Sabine for her activities, OMG so many...

[@thaxzeqtifs]

...and KZbin has done a great job in connecting Sabine & her work to everyone here!

[@frankhoffman3566]

I am a lay person interested in many subjects, including theoretical physics. Due to my illiteracy in the math involved, I tend to focus on the the general principles involved. In that vein I do appreciate Sabine's presentations. Although some mathematics appears inescapable, she at least tries to see the 'big picture'. From an educational standpoint, there appears to be a cycle of sorts. A new principle starts out with a complicated name and a complicated description. At that point, related principles arise out of this early complexity. Only when ways of explaining this complexity to the general public develop, does the real progress begin to happen. At present, theoretical physics is still in the former mode - formulae galore. I am just one lay person interested in where the pieces generally go in this jigsaw puzzle. Currently I just seem to get entangled with the incomprehensible mathematics. At least Sabine is trying to reach people like me.

[@Yayag69]

Phenomenal interview Curt - you are really getting the most out of your interviewees. Please keep these coming - we need people like yourself now more than ever now.

[@chrish7975]

I know this is going to sound really shallow.. but Sabine makes physics fun. Something I never thought I'd ever say.

[@amyers2141]

Thanks for this in-depth interview of Sabine Hossenfelder. As someone who has followed her blogs and videos and read her recent book, you could call me a fan. I found out that I am not the only one who works by digging into a topic continuously for several days (and nights) until I either have to give up or find the solution. I would like to learn more about her research on superfluid dark matter based on the theory of Justin Khoury at the University of Pennsylvania.

[@rajkiran6707]

Thank you Kurt for making these kind of awsome interviews, you and your team puts a lot of hardwork into them, you guys rock:)

[@DrBrianKeating]

Another world-class interview by, and of, a supernatural supernova intellect, Curt!!

[@billseltzer8909]

Great between two very bright scholars. On the matter of strong emergence: David Chalmers, NYU, has also published on the distinction between weak and strong emergence in “The Re-Emergence of Emergence”, Oxford University Press.

[@sibbyeskie]

Nice find. While listening to Sabine describe emergence, I wondered if it can account for the disconnect between standard model and relativity, then realized it's the same problem (also often defined as "emergent") of connecting physics at any level with that of a scientific description of consciousness. Trouble being that, at least with standard model/relativity, we know what both sides of the disconnect are that we are attempting to "connect." With consciousness, whatever mathematics might describe it are largely undefined. So even if it's emergent in the strong sense, bridging it with existing physics is even harder to get to. Maybe we should have a 3rd category for this type of emergence: "hyper-emergent"

[@potts995]

I like this interview, I think you asked some excellent questions, and of course, her responses are interesting as always!

[@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104]

It's interesting to learn about the everyday life of a Physicist. Also it's interesting to hear her talk about mistakes she's made and difficulties.

[@rossmanmagnus]

so interesting to watch especially since you made timestamps. thank you for that and here is my like

[@emmanuelpiedra2754]

How Sabina goes about measuring the universe by accounting for the deterministic equation and the equations that account for that bit of randomness is EXACTLY how we understand and talk about the idea of freewill. We know that there is a randomness (or freedom, emergence) that comes from us or appears to us. But we also can see predictable patterns as the background and often use those to anchor our expression and understanding of freedom. How are you to divide the universe between these to frames? Even at the level of being we must repress this seeming paradox so that being can gain drive.

[@UURevival]

So refreshing. My leading intellectual hero. Thank You!

[@wileecoyote796]

Delightful! Thank you both for sharing your thoughts.

[@rafique1539]

Good to hear of competing arguments within the physics disciplines.. makes it more interesting n dramatic.. there no drama without conflict..

[@kristianshreiner6893]

The matter of fact tone of her “…No…” at 32:26; nearly caused me to lose it 🤣

[@lilli2273]

Richtig cool dass sie aus Deutschland kommt. Noch cooler dass sie philosophiert. Davon braucht es hierzulande mehr Menschen

[@ericbremer6314]

Very good Interviewer,Curt Jaimungal.....brings her several times in selfdoubt....very well done..!!

[@TheoriesofEverything]

I hope you enjoy some of the other podcasts on this channel Eric. - Curt

[@leematthews6812]

Really looking forward to Sabine's lecture at London's Royal Institution in a few weeks.

[@tickityboo816]

Utterabley brilliant and creative woman. Wow! And her music is incredible!

[@miao6487]

delayed thanks again Curt!! you really has a great eyes on who you interview, she is one of the most brilliant minds in science lately, Germany is showing up a few amazing minds, like always did, she and Joscha are bringing really interesting topics to the regular public in a way that was needed...the easy she can express to audience and her honesty are just admirable as well as Joscha does, germanic culture helps in this... i loved when she said about that "mystic thing" related to the easy concept of consciousness which many physics seems are looking at that topic and others like they still alchemist or wizards searching the Solomon's seals or something like that, what a hell they want to control?? things are more simple and easy just emotional humans stop everything and my friend how you well know the labs and research centers in this world are plenty of emotional blocked people, this is why its evident something happen in science and is too different the way of thinking coming from EU and America, last one is definitely much more emotional..... what ever...right now we are practically on 2023, please move on!!... Thanks Sabine...and Curt of course!! ....one thing...had you ever thought about bringing someone who can talk about the relation of mind-consciousness-microbiota-evolution?? spanish neuroscientist based in Germany Nazareth Castellanos is hitting hard on this...and she is great, i means, audience will love to hear her, so kind and funny... english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-10-18/nazareth-castellanos-our-mind-is-wandering-almost-half-the-time.html that would be the ultimate lace what needs to wrap the sandwich...i and others researcher really think on that... is not so crazy......thanks for your job... keep rocking!! and honestly i do not undesrtand how someone can be scients and do not try or practice whatever type of art... music...the real quantum field... ;) hot to evolve without!!

[@vinko8237]

Man, you are a hell of an interviewer! Sabine talks about certain topics often and with a clear opinion, and she gets interviewed a lot about them. But you made her think quite a few time in this lovely hour. Congratulations!!! (Of course, she is a good interviewee too, not going rogue like some would, and not going on and on about her favorite themes. Congratulations to Sabine too!)

[@Mikey-mike]

Yet another great interview. Well done. Personally speaking, Sabine Hossenfelder is a pound of sense that person whose opinion I'd always want to hear. Can I make a suggestion? If yes, then Roger Penrose and you would be an interesting discussion. Again, well done !

[@TheoriesofEverything]

I would love to speak to Penrose

[@Mikey-mike]

@@TheoriesofEverything I think you will talk to Roger Penrose. Just a feeling. You're one of a kind. * * * * *

[@handzar6402]

When she talks about physics, she's very interesting and informative. When she goes beyond that and talks about philosophy and the like, not so much...but that's ok. Not everyone can be a good philosopher.

[@secularjihadi]

Honestly i disagree rather strongly on two counts: First, given the nature of her work, her talk about physics is very often philosophical in nature. The demarcation is not a line, more like an enormous venn diagram overlap with theoretical physics. Second, I think her philosophical analysis is rather clear and at least as nimble as most contemporary analytical philosophers in this field. Would be curious why you disagree.

[@handzar6402]

@@secularjihadi You've got to be kidding me. If she was clear and nimble as most analytical philosophers, she wouldn't be confused regarding some of the most common terms that are used by philosophers. There's no doubt that she tries to philosophise, but not well.

[@glenn-younger]

Great questions and she's so charming in her responses. I learned a lot. Thank you.

[@DeadEndFrog]

sabines amazing, tahnks for this!

[@jabowery]

Regarding the number of "constants" required for a TOE, I suggest interviewing Marcus Hutter about his paper "A Complete Theory of Everything (will be subjective)". Hutter comes at physics from the perspective of viewing artificial general intelligence as the automation of the scientific process. He's also the PhD advisor of Google DeepMind's founders (and its senior scientist).

[@jabowery]

Another priority interview regarding the dimensionless constants and their derivation from a TOE is Michael Manthey, whose recent patent "Space-like computations in computing devices" is based on a TOE that derives the dimensionless force scaling constants from a primitive combinatorial process. He also defines "awareness" in terms of this TOE and "consciousness" as "awareness of awareness".

[@RalfMuschall]

I think Dirac was aware of the square root of the d'Alembert operator (using Fourier transforms) but the result would be an integral, i.e. nonlocal. There is another way how GRT, Maxwell and Dirac are the simplest possible equations (Dirac being an outlier for having mass, let's assume the massless version here): in spinor form, they are Ψ^AB...X;_XY' = 0, where AB...X is a set of indices twice the value of the spin. In algebraically general spacetimes, for s=2 one can prove that Ψ must be proportional to Weyl. For s>=3/2, integrability conditions ensue (which are usually interpreted as saying there are no fields or elementary particles with s>1 except gravity).

[@f.2375]

this is great !! smart questions, and brilliant answers by legendary Sabine 👌

[@david_porthouse]

My Excel Visual Basic is able to make use of separately compiled modules written in some other language like PowerBasic, or maybe Modula-2. In these separately compiled modules I can write half a dozen different kinds of random number generator, all generating a random number between 0 and 1. One of the RNGs uses an ERNIE-like device. Another times the time you clicked on *Read more* as a source of randomness. Another solves a transcendental equation like x tan x = y. The Visual Basic program generates random numbers by all the different methods, and then does a bitwise logical XOR on the result, like R1 XOR R2 XOR R3 XOR R4 XOR R5 XOR R6, and uses the answer to set the detector angles on a Clauser/Aspect experiment. Just one of the RNGs needs to work as intended to make the result random. Superdeterminism implies that there is some great conspiracy which nevertheless wrecks my attempt to synthesise the free will of the experimenter with my fiendishly clever RNG. Well it's possible, but somewhat unlikely. Superrandomist doctrine applied to a computer simulation requires the user to press a button to do a Lorentz boost. This has the side effect of reseeding the RNG in use. We can then simulate nonlocal phenomena without worrying about causality. It’s an issue with causality that superdeterminism was devised to solve.

[@aliuyar6365]

Sabine is one of the clearest mind of our time. No surprise that Curt's path crossed her's

[@waterkingdavid]

I recommend the cosmologist George Ellis as an interviewee for our lovely interviewer here. He's very convincing about the problem of reductionist (bottom up) thinking.

[@riadhalrabeh3783]

Keep it up, you are doing a great service. That includes the artistic parts..

[@lindsayforbes7370]

Amazing interview. Thanks to both for doing it. So many comments I could make but I'll spare your blushes and my typing thumb. It's ridiculous that this talent cannot plan her work beyond 2 years. If ever there was a case for a 'go fund me' it's Dr H. No need for a grant proposal Sabine, just do what you think best.

[@freedapeeple4049]

Like many, I understand less than half of what she says, but I love listening to her.

[@crawkn]

Thank you for this interview, I am a "fan" of Sabine, which is to say that I perceive her to have the most logical process of physicists I know of. And of course she cares enough to actually communicate with lesser beings, which is endearing.

[@crawkn]

Probably I should have said, your questions were also astute.

[@sibbyeskie]

Excellent, excellent video. Great questions and very detailed answers.

Sabine makes my brain happy. And good interviewing!!👍

[@scotimages]

What a great series of replies. Even if like me you don't agree with Sabine you have really have to respect her.

[@nalathekitten3594]

I love her videos so much She is so cool. I totally love her opinions on physics 😊😊

[@TheoriesofEverything]

Thanks for the love and hopefully you enjoy some of the other podcasts on the channel as well. - Curt

[@Francisco-lf3zi]

Fascinating interview! I clicked on this video thinking I would spend 5 minutes to evaluate if I would watch it later today... I just watched the whole video almost without pausing. Lol. I thought : "A 1 hour video about interesting yet technical and difficult subjects ... Let's see ..."

[@TheoriesofEverything]

Wonderful, and hopefully you enjoy some of the other recent podcasts on this channel as well. - Curt

[@Francisco-lf3zi]

@@TheoriesofEverything I will certainly explore this channel further during the next few days. :)

[@merthsoft]

A conversation of you two and Sadhguru on consciousness would be fascinating. Her saying consciousness as information processing and self-awareness ergo everything has some level of consciousness is very compatible with the idea of a consciousness/awakefullness distinction he talks about when talking about consciousness in his video about Comas and anesthesiology.

[@marcopony1897]

I really don't think that consciousness can be explained by this kind of relational, comparative knowledge which science produces. Science is just about labeling and then putting things in relation, described by equations and other math stuff. Science is basically math and math is purely relational. A random number like "5" only exists in relation to other numbers, greater or smaller than 5. Science discovers the math to which things accordingly relate, but nothing about the "thing(s) in itself", which maybe has something to do with consciousness. Consciousness is just another domain in my opinion.

[@TheZzpop]

You don't *need* dimentionfull constants. You can have a theory which is fundementaly scale invarient where all emergent quantities can be represented as a ratio of relative scales which are produced through some dynamical symetry breaking of the underlying scale invarience symetry

[@erict.35]

Emergence = magic ≠ science, materialism, quantitative analysis

[@Erintel]

Sabine, you seem to be a person of integrity. Congratulations on your grant. I trust you will proceed without bias in your approach and reporting of the subject matter - no matter what the money wants. As you know, there is an element of convenience in the idea of a natural phenomena being "dark". I have to admit I'm a little weary and leery of "dark" theory. Still, I am looking forward to your predictions, your empirical data and your conclusions. I really don't mind if you fail . I know you will learn and I trust you will remain a person of integrity. Although I am not a scientist, I am a fan of your work and I long to understand the spin of rigid pinwheels.

[@eljcd]

"I dont care about your TOE" That's pure Hossenfelder. I love it already!

[@hoptoads]

@jay Critical observers make the best scientists.

[@thewhat531]

jay prove it!

[@ats118765]

I wonder about whether or not a 'phase' change cannot be used to describe 'strong emergence'. In other words, immediately prior to a phase state change.... a system itself is sufficiently 'internally' elastic through correlated variables to allow for forms of 'weak' emergence..... until the 'phase change' breaks the internal symmetry of the single system through the creation of two separated phase states with a boundary. Symmetry between the composite systems are no longer the same (symmetry breaking)...but symmetry within each separate system remains. That way....system emergence (nested sub system architecture) allows for special cases where 'the sum of a nested system arrangement can then be greater than the sum of its parts.

[@leandrosilvagoncalves1939]

Superb interview! I just don't understand how she believes that something as unimaginably brilliant as her consciousness could arise just from weak emergence. Looking forward to watching her conversation with Bernardo Kastrup.

[@AtypicalPaul]

Been watching her channel and she's very intelligent and has great content.

[@AMADEOSAM]

Very interesting discussion. It gives inspiration and a view on our search on reality.

[@IsomerSoma]

Very informative talk.

[@watsonwrote]

57:25 As a fiction writer, I would say that there is big difference between factual truth and verisimilitude. When I was studying for my BFA in writing, this was a subject we would sometimes discuss as a class. What are responsible ways to include facts in fiction? How do we make fictional words feel real? At the heart of these questions is the nature of how our minds interpret data and memory. People have systems of representation in their minds, and when something fits that system of representation, they find it "truthful." There are times that an entirely fictional story can be more "truthful" in that system of representation than something like a documentary because the film maker's level of "realism" has legal and technical limitations, while the imagination and capacity for description is nearly unlimited. In most forms of fiction, the goal is not truth but verisimilitude. The question "what does it feel like to be alive today?" isn't answered with facts, but with attuning to the system of representation born from our memories and cultural interpretations. "What does it feel like to be alive?" is the main question driving most fiction writers, and we find that that people don't live their lives in a matter of absolutes, but through our limited and chaotic experiences as humans. It took us a long time to discover the scientific method as we use it today, yet we are still living in a world full of superstition, uncertainty, and delusions. Even our own senses and memories are often "untruthful" to us. The concept of mathematical truth does not come easily to us as a species, so we need these more "interpreted experiences," this verisimilitude, to help us understand the world.

[@truebaran]

I think that the reason for considering Dirac operator instead just a square root using functional calculus is that you would like to have a differential operator. The square root of a differential operator is just pseudodifferential: such operators are nonlocal meaning that they do not preserve the support of a function-I don;t know whether it is relevant from the point of view of physics but it might be

[@magiccarpetmusic2449]

Sabine is not just exceptionally brilliant and interesting, but is also cool. Which is cool. And she also does fine music.

[@Davidsasz1239]

About the subject of conciousness, have you heard about the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness? It solves the mind-body problem, if it is right . Sabine managed to topic very well.

[@theodoresweger4948]

Thank you for programs.

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

Outstanding interview.

[@kuvrut7747]

I watch Sabines channel straight two days, having just a small manic episode..and I have no relevant knowledge about physic.( I mean I knew basics about relativity and quantum mechanic, gravity...) And without prior knowledge I'm delighted to see that scientific community is actually really in turmoil and really don't agree much about fabric of nature and reality . I started watching some regular videos about astrophysics and I was served with a nice little bites of concepts, thought experiments, theories, paradoxes.. and I thought all is well in scientific community. Everything is more or less finely tucked in big bang bong with a bow tie..and then Sabine...BAM She is so blunt. First thing I learned that they cannot come to agreement or move from a stale point for forty years now. And at first I thought that they are just bickering like I imagined scientist do..about prestige or recognition but nooo..they have small pieces of puzzle, puzzle that they want to cram in...get some objective and tidy model that fit as good as possible. I always knew that we don't know what causes Gravity, that we dont know actually very little. and I fell in love with Sabine because she really don't care, she reject anything that is not crucial for finding some order in universe, that numbers match, even with that dark matter that I always thought was imaginary idea so that they can explain why galaxies are spinning faster than they should or whatnot, according to Einsteins model that works, but than it doesn't...etc..always some problems. I don't care what is dark matter, for me is part of equation and what is most fun, neither the Sabine cares what it actually is. It can be liquid, gas...something. Her channel is great, she speaks a lot about some crazy theories that are really mindboggling and she dismiss them as irrelevant or incompatible. I look at life more through my own perspective, on my own search for interesting philosophical ideas. I let my imagination lead me. You asked her what she think about consciousness and it doesn't matter. Nobody can explain conciseness, after I die they can open my skull and poke my brain but nobody can explain why, now I. and I cannot explain nobody my experience as living being. In the end these two days thanks to Sabine I became entranced and in love with all that physics in a way that I didn't felt since I was child. It inspired me, elated me. In school they told us it was Big Bang, it is a scientific fact and who am I to challenge smart people. But Sabine took me and explained to me that they actually don't know and as for her sake it can be Unicorn that took a shit. magical. I understand that Sabine don't care but Im actually amazed by her. And you know all her work is not for fulfillment of her own professional apatite. she is doing all that for betterment of humanity, she wrote a book to motivate other scientists so we can some day find application in their research, some greater understanding that will lead us to even greater understanding..of what I don't know. but it must be important.

[@Franciscasieri]

Please read “A Universe from Nothing.” By Lawrence M. Krause. My guess is that you will love it.

[@kuvrut7747]

@@Franciscasieri I will, I will suggest you a book I Ching, the book of change,

[@Franciscasieri]

Kuv Rut - I will read it thanks. Such an ancient text which has applications in our time, it’s timeless.

[@kuvrut7747]

@@Franciscasieri It is hard to translate, I was lucky and had a good translation, theres lot of new age stuff that is just bad. it says it is I ching but keep away.

[@kuvrut7747]

I was never in divination, also Im not sure about predestination. It is a book of change that is here, not in some stars or horoskop.

[@LancetFencing]

When one talks about consciousness that exists that is somehow unique beyond week emergence the question. of Art needs to be considered.

[@markheller76]

Thought Lex was out here all alone. First view of this channel and what a gift. The women warrior is softening a bit on the other kids on the block. I will subscribe!

[@TheoriesofEverything]

Thanks for the love and hopefully you enjoy some of the other podcasts on the channel as well. - Curt

[@happyhome41]

You are amazing (brain) and I'm curious: in a previous video you commented that you could not obtain research money, and in this video you expressed appreciation for recent research grant -- so how do you pay the rent with no research money, and what can you do more now that you have the research grant ?

[@vitoanania6042]

you asked Sabine if she heard of superdeterminism lol but did you do any research before the interview

[@meinfs]

Sabine pronounces her name : [zaˈbiːnə]. She is my newest favorite science KZbinr!

[@TheoriesofEverything]

She's wonderful - Curt

[@JoJo-vg8dz]

Materialistic scientist 100%. Not my cup of tea but interesting.

[@markkennedy9767]

This guy asks really good questions

[@TheoriesofEverything]

Thanks, I appreciate that and hopefully you enjoy some of my other most recent podcasts. - Curt

[@lilbrottv8838]

Ok I'm really excited for this one, let's go bro.

[@HyperFocusMarshmallow]

Sabine is awesome!

[@onehitpick9758]

I have always thought that we're not seeing the water vapor for the clouds, or the super-cold helium and other paired,cold bosonic materials for all the other stuff. The next great revelation will derive the electron rest mass and charge from a set of field equations, vacuum polarization and all.

[@joeoconnor7725]

All energy is in constant distribution and transformation even how we think

[@madisondampier3389]

There's a rule layout in a cellular automaton spacial grid that correlates to the physical laws of our universe and we just have to find it with stupid intuition and luck looking at the stuff that happens when the numbers we're looking at are too small or too big to account for in our knowledge

[@oscargluja426]

Sabine, just for kicks or a pass time could you take a look at Hubbard's 'Theta-Mest theory'?

[@kingsalmonfish8889]

I've been scratching my head recently about the laws of physics. So the idea is that everything essentially functions on said laws but my question is what phenomena rule the laws themselves, why do they work? My concept was that the laws are patterns that exist so the phenomena must relate to these things, existence and form. Form is easier to describe than existence and I'm thinking that existence has something that generates form and then the laws which may be memetic in nature and not necessarily absolute. Feel free to science everything I just said.

[@askingEveryone]

Thank you for the great interview! With all due respect, consciousness IS special! It's not about information processing, and Windows Task Manager is not "self aware" (it's as "self aware" as any mechanical automata). AI does not cut it either - it's pretty much grep on steroids :) My awareness (and I believe everybody else's),is very peculiar and unintuitive and (for me) is the entry point of the entire experience I have... Or perhaps on the contrary my awareness is "intuitive only". I think consciousness is a great example of strong emergence (if we believe that consciousness originates in the brain), as there's nothing in properties of the constituent particles that could translate into that awareness - atoms are not aware, photons do not have experience (unless we consider panpsychism, but I won't go into that here). And therefore (as there is really no case for strong emergence) consciousness cannot originate in the brain, am I right? Same goes for the absence of free will - Dr. Hossenfelder's point of view is based on the assumption that consciousness originates in the brain. Again, speaking of the very basic observations - the ability to choose my intentions is the most fundamental experience (actually second only to experience of awareness), everything else is secondary, every bit of knowledge comes through that fundamental ability to choose. A bit on a side note, there's a new video snippet by Dr. James Cooke "Individuals as dissociated alternate identities of universal consciousness" as presented by Dr. Bernardo Kastrup (this is the worldview that I subscribe to and find it most probable).

[@RalfMuschall]

grep on steroids would be awk ;-) But I agree with you about the task manager - it is just a GUI displaying the process table, like "ps aux | xmessage -file -" in a loop and on steroids ;-)

[@askingEveryone]

@@RalfMuschall Haha, I like that! I guess awk is like "AI with some custom code to handle specific patterns", less steroids :)

[@acr08807]

No, you are not right.

[@askingEveryone]

@@acr08807 It’s a well-thought reply, I appreciate it very much

[@myothersoul1953]

I agree and disagree. Consciousness is special because it's nebulous and poorly defined. Many things can be said about it but veracity of those statements can't be examined., opinion can't be separated from fact. The supposed mysteries of the consciousness only appear after a dualism has been committed and the person is separated from the stuff that they are. Of course atoms aren't aware, atoms are also not soft or hard or fluid or any of those weakly emergent things that take multiple atoms to exist. Yes photons don't have experiences but show me one experience that exists apart from photons. That consciousness emerges from the brain is not just an assumption, it's a prediction. That would be easy to disprove, all you need is reliable verifiable evidence of consciousness without a brain. That evidence is lacking.

[@StefanConstantinDumitrache]

I couldn't watch this to the end due to the continuous pestering to like, subscribe, comment that at times took the whole screen.

[@NeedsEvidence]

Great interview, interesting insights.

[@AlKeanor]

I would lik to see Sabine in a Conversation with Josha Bach about conciousness

[@IntellectOnly]

I have to admit, the way she explains hard topics is way better than Michio Kaku or Lawrence Krauss without any exaggeration like they do

[@TheoriesofEverything]

I agree.