How critical is emergence in how the world works? Emergence happens when the behavior of composite things is more complex than the additive behaviors of all its constituent...
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Are there ‘general principles’ that encompass all sciences, which have explanatory strength from physics to biology? Could such general principles even explain...
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Is probability a deep probe of how the world works at fundamental levels? Or is probability merely a tool of human perception in trying to discern what is true and what is...
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Is emergence a mystery? Does ordinary stuff have mysterious properties? Take anything; find and separate all its parts and catalogue their properties. Then recombine those...
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Quantum theory is very strange. No act is wholly sure. Everything works by probabilities, described by a wave function. But what is a wavefunction? One theory is that every...
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Can science discover all truths? Or are there truths beyond science? What is science? A process? A way of thinking? How to get at the essence of science, discern how it...
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Episode 11
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Time seems natural and absolute: the flow of moments one following another from the unknown past to the knife’s edge present to the unknowable future. But this is not...
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Mathematics describes the real world of atoms and acorns, stars and stairs, with remarkable precision. So is mathematics invented by humans-like chisels and hammers and...
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‘Possible worlds’ are all the ways in which a world can be. A ‘world’ is a complete state of cosmic affairs: all the infinite variations of...
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What constitutes good science? Are there limits to science? If so, what are the boundaries? How deep can science dig into the foundations of the world?
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Extra dimensions-beyond length, width, height-seem the stuff of science fiction. What would extra dimensions be like? Is time the fourth dimension? Could deep reality be so...
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