David Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity" Ch 3, The Spark, Part 3/3, Some remarks by Brett Hall
This video is about David Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity" Chapter 3 "The Spark" (Part 3 of 3). This one might also be called "The Cosmic Significance of Knowledge" If you would like to support this endeavor, do consider making a one off donation by clicking the “Donate” button on the front page of www.bretthall.org or you may “subscribe” (contribute automatically each month) - at https://patreon.com/BrettRHall ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLydNSiYPjY
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The eleventh in a series of shorts reflecting on David Deutsch's paper "The Philosophy of Constructor Theory" published here https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-013-0279-z and available in full here: https://www.constructortheory.org/portfolio/the-philosophy-of-constructor-theory/ #physics #knowledge #philosophy #epistemology #daviddeutsch #science
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I prefer the version of this video with the music (which is otherwise identical) - found here: https://youtu.be/s3tMRgAHXgw
This is a video both about the book "The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch and the July 2022 release of images by NASA from the James Webb Space Telescope. The 5 first images are discussed and the broader implications of "discovery science" for our view of our place in and significance for the cosmos.
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This chapter continues the themes from Chapter 5 and purports to be an exploration of the use of so-called "rational choice theory". I discuss this "theory" and how well it applies to the "real life process of the same name". How do we make rational choices? By assigning probabilities? By weighing our options? Something else?
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The final episode of readings from "The Science of Can and Can't" by Chiara Marietta. This serves as something of a summary chapter with pointers about the future of Constructor Theory.
Most videos are of the area around "Sanctuary Point" NSW, Australia. Some are from Cronulla near Sydney and you should be able to spot some videos of Sydney Harbour itself towards the end....
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In this episode I respond to an article in the Science Journal “Nature”. Here is the link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x
Nature is among the highest tier of journals in the world - highly respected and the place every scientist would love to have their work published at some point in their career. Nature has editorials as well as journal articles and they have effectively a letters to the editor section and commentary. Nonetheless, although this article is labelled as “comment” it has 8 authors all claiming expertise in disciplines from environmental science through to ecological economics and sociology. I refute the article paragraph by paragraph and point by point providing analysis, opinion and reflections. This is a clash of worldviews: that of decline and degrowth and pro-environment and that of progress, growth and pro-people. This was something of a “straw that breaks the camel’s back” moment. Just as around the world many people are struggling to pay energy bills and governments persist in implementing policies that will only see the cost of living due to energy policy increase further while the overall wealth of households decreases, Nature sees fit to publish a defence of strong-socialism. This piece refers to “science” and yet it is not science. It is not even economics. It is an ideology screed. And a screed of this kind needs to be answered because, as I conclude - this is dangerous. This is literally life, livelihood and liberty threatening. The brakes are presently on the economies of the world because of the misconception that rapid progress and growth are a bad thing. That population increase is a bad thing. That cheap reliable energy is a bad thing and the prescription for this is to coerce people into using forms of energy that are not yet shown to have worked reliably anywhere (in other words entirely untested in even one place before being mandated on all places) and in many places simply not available yet, while coal and fossil fuel supplies are decommissioned too early. This is a threat to nation states and to the globe. This is my defence of humanity against anti-rational memes, prosaic “bad ideas” and stasis.
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Some remarks by me, Brett Hall If you would like to support this endeavor, do consider making a one off donation by clicking the “Donate” button on the front page of www.bretthall.org
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A version of this video/podcast without the music is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ay300_ZjVI
(but I far prefer this one here with the soundtrack!).
This is a video both about the book "The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch and the July 2022 release of images by NASA from the James Webb Space Telescope. The 5 first images are discussed and the broader implications of "discovery science" for our view of our place in and significance for the cosmos.
All music by Ketsa
Tracks in order:
00:00 Beauty Calls
03:21 No Space
06:42 Falling Angels
10:17 Physics
13:26 Rewinding Time
16:39 Star Blessed Night
19:45 Night Shadows
23:22 Surroundings
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