Ep 199: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Realit...

Response to a question about my discussion with @drpeterboghossian here: https://youtu.be/72vhtT0pFmA?si=hAx1kPho4DkLkBFN This is yet another way of coming at a critique around the concept of "belief" or those who profess to "believe" and so on using Deutsch's approach that knowl ...  Show more

In this, the third and final part of a series, I break down some work Michael Levin has done with sorting algorithms. That seems very dry until you hear his claim that these algorithms that are well known and have been studied for decades exhibit extremely unusual behaviour never ...  Show more

العلم بيشكل ويقود عالمنا الحاضر! تقريبا كل صور التقدم، المعرفة، والنقلات البشرية الحديثة علمية فى جوهرها، من المضادات الحيوية، أجهزة الكمبيوتر، فهمنا لعملية التطور البشري، إلي قدرتنا لوضع قمر صناعي في مدار كوكب زحل! بالنسبة لكثير من البشر فى العصر الحالي التقدم هو ببساطة مصطلح آخ ...  Show more

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How can mathematical models inform our understanding of the world? And how can we expl ...

Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince are joined by special guests Alexei Sayle and philosopher Julian Baggini to discuss Stephen Hawking's recent comment that "philosophy is dead". Does the progress of science mean the need for disciplines such as philosophy and even relig ...  Show more

Faced with one cake and eight hungry people, it’s pretty obvious how maths underpins reality. But as mathematics gets further from common sense and into seemingly abstract territory, nature still seems to obey its rules - whether in the orbit of a planet, the number of petals ...