Season 1 · Episode 65
Episode 65: Causality, Time, and Free Will
The Theory of Anything · Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen
September 18, 20231h 58m
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Show Notes
What did David Deutsch get right and wrong in chapter 11, “Time: The First Quantum Concept,” from his first book, Fabric of Reality? Is the flow of time real or an illusion? What does it mean to have free will in a deterministic world? And what are the implications of Bruce’s “Turing world within a Turing world” thought experiment?