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    Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

    Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, Ai, and God in a technically rigorous manner. If you’d like to support this endeavor, then please visit the Substack https://curtjaimungal.com as you get ad-free extras. Thank you for your charitable and kindhearted support. My name’s Curt Jaimungal, a Torontonian with a degree in mathematical physics from the University of Toronto and I analyze various Theories of Everything from this analytic perspective, though more and more opening up to alternative approaches. The separating factor of TOE from other podcasts is its focus on depth even at the risk of limiting the audience due to how much detail we delve into subjects. Paralleling the intensity found in academic discourse, we’re increasingly embracing a spectrum of unconventional ideas to conduct research during this podcast, rather than merely conveying existing information.

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    Ivette Fuentes: Quantum Gravity Predictions We Can Test Today Nov 10, 2025
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    Professor Ivette Fuentes makes impossible physics testable, with verified predictions on the Casimir effect and quantum vacuum. Now she's building a "third way" to quantum gravity, a surprisingly simple model that changes both quantum mechanics and relativity instead of forcing one to dominate the other.
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    TIMESTAMPS:
    - 00:00 - A Third Way to Quantum Gravity
    - 07:35 - Vacuum-Induced Berry Phase
    - 12:30 - Dynamical Casimir Effect
    - 19:02 - Stagnation in Physics?
    - 29:25 - A Third Way to Unification
    - 38:20 - What is Physics?
    - 43:43 - What is Entanglement?
    - 56:11 - Observer-Dependent Entanglement
    - 1:03:20 - Advice for Students
    LINKS MENTIONED:
    - Ivette’s First Appearance [TOE]: https://youtu.be/cUj2TcZSlZc
    - Ivette’s Published Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W7-xksIAAAAJ&hl=en
    - Ivette’s Website: https://ivettefuentes.weebly.com/
    - Berry Phase: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/mathematics/berry-phase
    - Maria Violaris [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Iya6tYN37ow
    - Casimir Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
    - Towards Universal Quantum Computation Through Relativistic Motion [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.5619
    - SQUID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID
    - Observation Of The Dynamical Casimir Effect In A Superconducting Circuit [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.4714
    - Generating Multimode Entangled Microwaves With A Superconducting Parametric Cavity [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.00083
    - Sir Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/iO03t21xhdk
    - String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY
    - Felix Finster [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fXzO_KAqrh0
    - Jonathan Oppenheim [TOE]: https://youtu.be/6Z_p3viqW1g
    - Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8
    - Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/wrUvtqr4wOs
    - Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss
    - Bertlemann’s Socks And The Nature Of Reality [Paper]: https://cds.cern.ch/record/142461/files/198009299.pdf
    - Perimeter Institute: https://perimeterinstitute.ca/
    - Alice Falls Into A Black Hole [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0410172
    - Observer Dependent Entanglement [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.2223
    - Frederic Schuller [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Bnh-UNrxYZg
    - Vacuum Induced Spin-1/2 Berry Phase [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0202128

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    Curt Jaimungal: Can Physics Explain Its Own Laws? Nov 05, 2025
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    Why do physical laws have their specific form? Host Curt Jaimungal shows this question is a philosophical knot, because any "explanation" must itself stand on a law.
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    Timestamps:
    - 00:00 - Why Physical Laws?
    - 05:04 - The Justification Problem
    - 12:14 - The Limits of Explanation
    Links mentioned:
    - Wigner’s Classification: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Wigner+classification
    - Noether’s Theorem: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Noether%27s+theorem
    - This Is What Energy Actually Is [TOE]: https://youtu.be/hQk9GLZ0Fms
    - Do Symmetries “Explain” Conservation Laws? [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.10909
    - Max Tegmark [TOE]: https://youtu.be/-gekVfUAS7c
    - Lee Smolin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/uOKOodQXjhc
    - Amanda Gefter [TOE]: https://youtu.be/yABPvDJ6Zgs
    - John Norton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Tghl6aS5A3M
    - Laws of Physics [Eddy Keming Chen]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03484
    - What’s Actually Possible: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-unexamined-in-principle
    - Eddy Chen & Barry Loewer [TOE]: https://youtu.be/xZnafO__IZ0
    - The Package Deal Accounts of Laws and Properties [Paper]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-020-02765-2
    - David Deutsch [TOE]: https://youtu.be/vKeWv-cdWkM
    - Elan Barenholtz & Will Hahn [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Ca_RbPXraDE
    - Münchhausen Trilemma [Wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
    - Jennifer Nagel [TOE]: https://youtu.be/CWZVMZ9Tm7Q
    - Law Without Law [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01826
    - Schrodinger Equation: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Schr%C3%B6dinger+equation
    - Born Rule: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Born+rule
    - Enaction of Qbists [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.04230
    - Constructor Theory [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.7439
    - The Package Deal Account of Laws and Properties [Paper]: https://sites.rutgers.edu/barry-loewer/wp-content/uploads/sites/195/2020/05/Loewer-2020-The-Package-Deal-Account.pdf
    - Jonathan Pageau [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X3co_AA6yec
    - The Most Abused Theorem in Math (Godel’s Incompleteness) [TOE]: https://youtu.be/OH-ybecvuEo
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    Roger Penrose: “My Crazy Idea That Explains the Universe” Nov 03, 2025
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    Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose dismantles standard cosmology, arguing the Big Bang wasn't the beginning and quantum mechanics is fundamentally wrong. He then connects a real, gravitational wave function collapse to the non-computational nature of consciousness and why today's AI can't truly understand.
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    Timestamps:
    - 00:00 - The Big Bang Wasn't The Beginning
    - 02:14 - Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC)
    - 09:12 - The Collapse Problem
    - 14:31 - A Feeling of Elation
    - 24:32 - Gödel and Understanding
    - 37:32 - Gravitational Collapse
    - 50:05 - Critique of Modern AI
    - 57:12 - Black Hole Information "Paradox"
    - 1:04:15 - Wheeler, Wigner, & Witten
    - 1:15:04 - Richard Feynman in Poland
    - 1:20:25 - Libet's Timing of Consciousness
    - 1:32:49 - Three Worlds, Three Mysteries
    - 1:44:14 - Why Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong
    Links mentioned:
    - Stuart Hameroff [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0_bQwdJir1o
    - Classical Theory [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9409195
    - Rebecca Goldstein [TOE]: https://youtu.be/VkL3BcKEB6Y
    - The Emperor’s New Mind [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Emperors-New-Mind-Concerning-Computers/dp/0192861980
    - Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Fashion-Faith-Fantasy-Physics-Universe/dp/0691178534
    - Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0312171
    - What Is Life? [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/What-Life-Matter-Autobiographical-Sketches/dp/1107604664
    - Michael Levin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Exdz2HKP7u0
    - Why I Don’t Buy the Simulation Hypothesis (Nor Materialism) [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3_lBPMc6JRY
    - Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics [Book]: https://www.amazon.ca/Consciousness-Quantum-Mechanics-Shan-Gao/dp/0197501664
    - Ivette Fuentes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/cUj2TcZSlZc

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    Aaron Schurger: Neuroscience Does Not Threaten Free Will Oct 30, 2025
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    The Libet experiment didn't kill free will, says professor of neuroscience Aaron Schurger; the brain's "readiness potential" is simply stochastic neural noise. We then tackle consciousness's role in initiating action, the hard problem, and what it'd take for neuroscience to truly disprove our choices. If you’re interested in the topics above, I think you’ll love this podcast.
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    Timestamps:
    - 00:00 - The Readiness Potential
    - 07:14 - Reinterpreting Libet's Results
    - 24:18 - Autocorrelated Neural Noise
    - 36:06 - Noise vs. Conscious Imperative
    - 43:46 - Resolving Libet's Paradox
    - 50:55 - The Point of No Return
    - 56:11 - Attention Schema Theory
    - 01:03:47 - Explaining "What It's Like"
    - 01:17:00 - Consciousness & Action Initiation
    - 01:24:54 - Testing Consciousness Thresholds
    Links mentioned:
    - Aaron Schurger’s Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lBSjfagAAAAJ&hl=en
    - Daniel Dennett [TOE]: https://youtu.be/bH553zzjQlI
    - Determined: A Science Of Life Without Free Will [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Determined-Science-Life-without-Free/dp/B0BVNSX4CQ/ref=sr_1_1
    - Robert Sapolsky [TOE]: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8
    - An Accumulator Model For Spontaneous Neuralactivity Prior To Self-Initiated Movement [Paper]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.1210467109
    - Consciousness Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk
    - Stephen Wolfram [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0YRlQQw0d-4
    - Awareness As A Perceptual Model Of Attention [Paper]: https://grazianolab.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3411/files/graziano/files/cog_neurosci_2011b.pdf
    - Cortical Activity Is More Stable When Sensory Stimuliare Consciously Perceived [Paper]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.1418730112
    - Propofol Anesthesia Destabilizes Neural Dynamics Across Cortex [Paper]: https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0896-6273%2824%2900446-X
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    Curt Jaimungal: Why I Don't Buy the Simulation Hypothesis (Nor Materialism) Oct 21, 2025
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    Curt Jaimungal dismantles both the simulation hypothesis and materialism using consciousness arguments.
    One week ago, I (Curt Jaimungal) was invited to Niagara University to give the Peggy and John Day University Honors Endowed Lecture, which was quite the privilege and honor. The lecture focuses on metaphysics. I explain extremely simply the arguments for you being a “simulation,” the arguments against it, and where I personally land. Then I do the same for “materialism.”
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    Timestamps:
    - 00:00 - Simulation vs. Materialism
    - 05:04 - Mistakes Intellectuals Make
    - 10:12 - The Simulation Mythology
    - 16:46 - Bayesian Errors & Glitches
    - 23:22 - Principle of Indifference Flaws
    - 29:07 - The Case Against Materialism / Physicalism
    - 35:28 - Nested Consciousness Problem
    - 42:36 - Q&A: Modern Dualism?
    - 50:51 - Debating Indifference Principle
    Links mentioned:
    - Niagara University’s 2025 Fall Speaker Series: https://www.niagara.edu/academics/initiatives-and-institutes/fall-speaker-series/
    - Michael Barnwell [Site]: https://www.philosophy4business.com/
    - David Deutsch [TOE]: https://youtu.be/vKeWv-cdWkM
    - Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU
    - David Chalmers [TOE]: https://youtu.be/RH5qjdHhtBk
    - The Most Abused Theorem in Math [TOE]: https://youtu.be/OH-ybecvuEo
    - The Mandela Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect
    - Efron’s Dice: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/EfronsDice.html
    - String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY
    - Emily Adlam & Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/rw1ewLJUgOg
    - Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss
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    Yakir Aharonov: “Heisenberg Was Right and We Ignored Him” Oct 13, 2025
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    Yakir Aharonov argues quantum reality requires future states to propagate backward in time.
    Physicist Yakir Aharonov argues that the standard story of quantum mechanics is wrong, proposing a time-symmetric “two-state vector” view in which reality is defined by wavefunctions from both past and future. He explains weak measurements (information without collapse), nonlocal dynamics behind interference, and phenomena like the “quantum Cheshire Cat.” Aharonov recounts the birth of the Aharonov–Bohm effect, why gauge potentials mislead about locality, and how pre and post-selection restore causal insight without determinism. He shares memories of Bohm, Heisenberg, and Feynman, touches on gravitational and non-Abelian AB analogs, and lays out why a clear narrative—not just math—is essential to understanding quantum theory.
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    Links mentioned:
    - Yakir’s Papers: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1023512
    - Jenann Ismael [TOE]: https://youtu.be/7kvXihDAOi0
    - Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU
    - Shift Of An Electron Interference Pattern By Enclosed Magnetic Flux [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.5.3
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    David Deutsch: Einstein Would Fail Modern Grant Applications Oct 06, 2025
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    David Deutsch argues Einstein would struggle to secure modern research grants, exposing how funding systems favor incremental work over bold, fundamental ideas. He ties this bias to quantum computing, constructor theory, free will, and the role of creativity in scientific breakthroughs.
    0:00 Einstein's Grant Application
    7:00 Funding People, Not Projects
    12:35 Is Physics Stagnant?
    17:34 The "Checkbox" Problem
    26:05 Physics vs. Math Departments
    32:42 Fundamental vs. Foundational
    40:08 Physicists and Philosophy
    45:44 Why Academics Are Silent
    51:20 The Problem of Quantum Gravity
    58:31 Qubit Field Theory
    1:03:18 Problem-Solving in Physics
    1:17:14 Deutsch's "Impossible" List
    1:24:23 Meeting Hugh Everett
    1:35:01 Susskind's MWI Objections
    1:46:44 Everett and Quantum Computing
    1:56:20 Constructor Theory
    2:03:01 Free Will and Knowledge
    2:09:08 Follow The Fun
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    - Beginning Of Infinity [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0143121359?tag=toe08-20
    - How To Reverse Academia’s Stagnation [Video]: https://youtu.be/Em-85baHx0A
    - Qubit Field Theory [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0401024
    - Quantum Theory, The Church–Turing Principle And The Universal Quantum Computer [Paper]: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1985.0070
    - ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/
    - Scott Aaronson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/1ZpGCQoL2Rk
    - Wayne Myrvold [TOE]: https://youtu.be/HIoviZe14pY
    - Neil Turok [TOE]: https://youtu.be/zNZCa1pVE20
    - String Theory Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X4PdPnQuwjY
    - Alex Honnold [TOE]: https://youtu.be/D4oXvxqzSyA
    - Michael Levin Λ Anna Ciaunica: https://youtu.be/2aLhkm6QUgA
    - Stephen Wolfram [TOE]: https://youtu.be/FkYer0xP37E
    - The Heisenberg Picture: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps/Advanced_Statistical_Mechanics_(Tuckerman)/09%3A_Review_of_the_basic_postulates_of_quantum_mechanics/9.04%3A_The_Heisenberg_Picture
    - Jacob Barandes Λ Emily Adlam: https://youtu.be/rw1ewLJUgOg
    - Everett’s Letter To DeWitt: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/orig-02.html
    - The Many-Worlds Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/069161895X?tag=toe08-20
    - Leonard Susskind [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2p_Hlm6aCok
    - Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo
    - David Wallace [TOE]: https://youtu.be/4MjNuJK5RzM
    - Chiara Marletto [TOE]: https://youtu.be/40CB12cj_aM
    - Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU
    - Robert Sapolsky [TOE]: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8
    - Yang-Hui He [TOE]: https://youtu.be/spIquD_mBFk

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    Wayne Myrvold: Entropy Isn't Real; It's What You Don't Know Sep 29, 2025
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    Wayne Myrvold reinterprets thermodynamics as a resource theory, arguing that the slogan “entropy always increases” follows from the second law rather than defining it. The conversation contrasts Gibbs and Boltzmann entropy, examines Maxwell’s demon, Landauer erasure, statistical bounds on Carnot efficiency, and explores implications for cosmology, ergodicity, and collapse theories, ending with pedagogical reflections and career advice.
    0:00 Is entropy in the system or in our minds?
    7:12 Original thermodynamics as a resource theory of heat and power
    18:24 The second law does not assume entropy; entropy requires the second law
    30:58 From caloric to molecular motion: historical view
    39:04 Maxwell's insight: why the second law is not absolute
    48:11 Information as a resource: knowledge and entropy
    1:00:53 Boltzmann vs Gibbs: objective vs subjective entropy
    1:10:24 Maxwell's demon and Landauer's principle
    1:25:02 The inevitable "heat death" of the universe?
    1:30:19 Why "disorder" misleads
    1:35:21 Ergodic hypothesis: relevance and limits
    1:43:52 Is statistical mechanics on shaky ground (like QFT)?
    1:50:50 Career advice: do not join bandwagons
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    - Concerning Several Conveniently Applicable Forms For The Main Equations Of The Mechanical Heat Theory [Paper]: https://web.lemoyne.edu/giunta/Clausius1865.pdf
    - John Norton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Tghl6aS5A3M
    - On An Absolute Thermometric Scale [Paper]: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/2559_Therm_Stat_Mech/docs/Thomson_1848.pdf
    - Carnot Efficiency: https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Carnot_efficiency
    - Maxwell's Talk On Molecules: https://victorianweb.org/science/maxwell/molecules.html
    - Helmholtz Free Energy: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/helmholtz-free-energy
    - Boltzmann Entropy: https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Western_Washington_University/Biophysical_Chemistry_(Smirnov_and_McCarty)/01%3A_Biochemical_Thermodynamics/1.05%3A_The_Boltzmann_Distribution_and_the_Statistical_Definition_of_Entropy
    - Maxwell's Letter: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-CAVENDISH-P-00092/1
    - Landauer's Principle: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S135521980300039X
    - On A Universal Tendency In Nature To The Dissipation Of Mechanical Energy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14786445208647126
    - Neil Turok [TOE]: https://youtu.be/zNZCa1pVE20
    - Roger Penrose [TOE]: https://youtu.be/sGm505TFMbU
    - Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo
    - Understanding The Infinite [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Infinite-Shaughan-Lavine/dp/0674921178
    - Classical Electrodynamics [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Classical_Electrodynamics-John-David-Jackson/dp/1119770769
    - Why Information Is Entropy [YouTube]: https://youtu.be/8Uilw9t-syQ

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    Michael Levin and Anil Seth: Your Brain Is Not a Computer Sep 22, 2025
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    Anil Seth and Michael Levin debate whether brains are computers, how consciousness relates to substrate, and if algorithms can ever capture life and mind. Levin argues machines can access a platonic space of agency via embodied interfaces, xenobots, and compositional agents, while Seth challenges the software-hardware split using information theory, Granger causality, and psychophysics. Together they probe islands of awareness, degeneracy, bubble-sort side quests, LLM surprises, alignment, and how to ask better scientific questions.
    0:00 Anil Seth & Michael Levin: Islands of Consciousness & Xenobots
    8:24 Substrate Dependence: Why Biology Isn't Just 'Wetware'
    13:13 Beyond Algorithms: Do Machines Tap Into a 'Platonic Space'?
    21:46 The Ghost in the Algorithm: Emergent Agency in Bubble Sort
    29:26 Degeneracy: The Biological Principle AI is Missing
    36:34 The Multiplicity of Agency: Are Your Cells Conscious?
    43:24 Unconscious Processing or Inaccessible Consciousness? The Split-Brain Problem
    49:32 The Ultimate Experiment to Decode Consciousness
    57:31 A Counter-Intuitive Discovery: Consciousness is Less Emergent
    1:03:39 Psychedelics, LLMs, and the Frontiers of Surprise
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    - Living Things Are Not Machines [Article]: https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are/
    - Classical Sorting Algorithms [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05375
    - Michael Levin and Anna Ciaunica [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2aLhkm6QUgA
    - Being You: A New Science of Consciousness [Book]: https://www.amazon.com/Being-You-New-Science-Consciousness/dp/1524742872/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
    - The Consciousness Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk
    - Iain McGilchrist [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Q9sBKCd2HD0
    - Matt Segall [TOE]: https://youtu.be/DeTm4fSXpbM
    - Andres Gomez-Emilsson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/gi08eVU_-f8
    - MIT's Augmentation Summit: https://augmentationlab.org/summit
    - Granger Causality Analysis [Paper]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25716830/
    - Dynamical Independence [Paper]: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.99.022143

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    Lilian Dindo: ACT Therapy for OCD, Anxiety, and Obsessive Thoughts Sep 17, 2025
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    Lilian Dindo explains Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for anxiety, panic attacks, and obsessive thoughts They discuss how ACT can help uncover personal values, differentiate anxiety from excitement, and even boost learning in math and physics.
    0:00 Introduction
    4:05 What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) therapy?
    8:12 Suffering is a part of life
    11:06 ACT is not just for therapy, but for general illness and rejection
    14:24 Lilian's feeling anxiety in this interview *right now*, but ACT is helping
    15:57 Dealing with panic attacks
    18:22 "Anxiety" and "excitement" are physiologically indistinguishable
    20:00 Implementing ACT (specific example)
    26:15 Stop avoiding. The mind works by addition (not subtraction)!
    30:00 Choosing courage vs. "mustering" courage
    30:51 Coping vs. mollifying
    33:45 Goal oriented vs. Value oriented
    36:06 How to uncover your own values?
    42:14 Do values imply a "should"? (specific example)
    47:45 What separates those for whom therapy works for, from those it doesn't?
    54:57 Suicidal ideation / psychosis (there's hope with ACT)
    57:14 Enhancing learning math / physics
    59:50 Acceptance vs Acknowledgement
    1:01:40 Physical vs Psychology (mind and body connection)
    1:05:53 A visual example you can employ to abate anxiety
    1:10:39 The role of belief / hope / faith / trust
    1:11:08 "Thanking" the negative thought / emotion
    1:11:50 People don't suffer with just ONE issue, but multiple
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    - http://contextualscience.org
    - Links mentioned:
    - Karl Friston episode: https://youtu.be/SWtFU1Lit3M
    - A H Almaas episode: https://youtu.be/6JlKf1QAvXA
    - Curt's Crash Course on Theoretical Physics: https://youtu.be/e8kyvdPP8os

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