
Sabine Hossenfelder vs. Bernardo Kastrup: Superdeterminism Debate
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Show Notes
- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:04:16 - Overview of Superdeterminism
- 00:08:31 - Bernardo's agreements / disagreements
- 00:13:15 - It's more promising to violate statistical independence (SI)
- 00:15:59 - What are the hidden variables in Superdeterminism?
- 00:18:20 - What is statistical independence? Is it a mere assumption?
- 00:22:41 - People claim Superdeterminism isn't falsifiable, but is it?
- 00:31:17 - Back and forth criticism and justification of proposed experiments
- 00:38:35 - Does experiment change the outcome of what's measured?
- 00:41:37 - Contrarian views -- should they be put forward tentatively?
- 00:44:57 - Decoherence and the observer
- 00:49:22 - The observer (and consciousness) is irrelevant in quantum mechanics
- 00:52:37 - Why oppose violating statistical independence (SI)?
- 00:54:57 - Metaphysics? Or simply trying to solve the measurement problem?
- 00:55:57 - We don't have a good reason to depart with SI
- 00:59:10 - Holding Sabine to higher standards than John Bell?
- 01:01:31 - [gastronic] What is the definition of measurement / What does it mean to "look at"?
- 01:02:22 - [Salvatore Pais] Unification of forces by means of the "Super Force"
- 01:05:18 - [rad capsule] "Without thought, there is no science."
- 01:07:22 - Falsifying idealism
- 01:11:53 - Joscha Bach?
- 01:13:20 - Notes about the upcoming Salvatore Pais interview
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RESOURCES:
- Sabine Hossefelder's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder
- Testing Superdeterminism: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0286
- Testing Superdeterminism: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4326
- Other Superdeterminism articles: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02676
- Other Superdeterminism articles: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01327
- Decoherence article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06282
- Bernardo Kastrup's website: https://www.bernardokastrup.com/
- No Go Theorem on Wigner: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-0990-x
- Making Sense of the Mental Universe by Kastrup: http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2017-19/Kastrup_19.pdf
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01826
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05677
- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/12/12/123007/meta
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05080
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0085-3
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1012682413597
- https://books.google.nl/books/about/Mindful_Universe.html?id=pArDC3K3O2UC
- http://ispcjournal.org/journals/2017-19/Kastrup_19.pdf
- https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1804
- https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9806043
- https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9810080
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10119
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys3343
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1026096313729
- https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609002
- Better Left Unsaid documentary: http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com
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