In this conversation, Sam Harris speaks with Frank Wilczek about the fundamental nature of reality. They discuss the difference between science and non-science, the role of intuition in science, the nature of time, the prospect that possibility is an illusion, the current limits of quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle, space-time as a substance, the “unreasonable effectiveness” of mathematics in science, the possibility that we might be living in a simulation, the fundamental building blocks of matter, the structure of atoms, the four fundamental forces, wave-particle duality, the electromagnetic spectrum, the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the implications of infinite space-time, dark energy and dark matter, and other topics.
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#378 — Digital Delusions
#377 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2
#376 — How Democracies Fail
#375 — On the Attempted Assassination of President Trump
#374 — Consciousness and the Physical World
#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
#372 — Life & Work
#371 — What the Hell Is Happening?
#370 — Gender Apartheid and the Future of Iran
#369 — Escaping Death
#368 — Freedom & Censorship
#367 — Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Western Values
#366 — Urban Warfare 2.0
#365 — Reality Check
#364 — Facts & Values
#363 — Knowledge Work
#362 — Six Months of War
#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism
#360 — We Really Don’t Have Free Will?
#359 — Getting Used to It
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