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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#114 — Politics and Sanity
#113 — Consciousness and the Self
#112 — The Intellectual Dark Web
#111 — The Science of Meditation
#110 — The Change Artist
#109— Biology and Culture
#108 — Defending the Experts
#107 — Is Life Actually Worth Living?
#106 — Humanity 2.0
#105 — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty
#104 — The Lessons of Death
#103 — American Fantasies
#102 — Is Buddhism True?
#101 — Defending the Republic
#100 — Facing the Crowd
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#99 — What Happened to Liberalism?
#98 — Into the Dark Land
#97 — The Impossible War
#96 — The Nature of Consciousness
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