Just kidding about the length (3+ hours), but I would love a transcript. Interesting stuff.
https://youtu.be/XjOg-OP_69Y?t=2496
“A four by four matrix at every point in essence symmetric about its diagonal... it turns out that curvature is an emergent quantity... which is kind of a giant shock. We all sort of think we know what we mean by saying something is curved. Mathematicians figured out you can recover curvature as a consequence of having rulers and protractors which is a highly non-trivial observation.”
Our minds appear to be built on a substrate with a default, general-purpose operating system, but it becomes modified as we grow and learn. When we are young we unlearn our intuitive assumption of the non-permanence of objects. When we are more educated we can possibly grasp that objects are really approximations of standing wave patterns in constant flux, and the permanence of objects is an illusion.
We add to this the many quirks of subatomic physics. Entanglement and spooky action at a distance. Superposition and “simultaneous” differing states. The observer effect. Schrödinger’s cat. Double-slit.
Science is starting to wake up to the idea that not only are space and time not continuous or discrete, they are not even the fundamental reality. It is more than merely discovering that we are in a simulation, it is the realization that the reality we intuitively and naturally assume to be real does not exist apart from consciousness. The assumption that consciousness is an emergent property of matter is being dispelled and replaced with a more scientific though less intuitive understanding that space-time is an emergent property of mind.
I’m only up to 2:11:40. As it it is pauseable, I can drop by and watch a few minutes at a time as other tasks permit.
It gets interesting there as they discuss institutions and experts.
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