Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · blog0.803

   I think it is natural to take the viewpoint that any axiomatic structure, such as the sciences, can only explain certain types of phenomena. Other systems, such as magick, can explain other phenomena. It is interesting that these different axiomatic structures can overlap: they can explain the same types of phenomena, but they explain them in different ways. One might call different axiomatic systems as "paradigms," or "representations." Whatever you call them, it is important not to mix the different systems, because the any term defined in one representation are not likely to have the same m…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/physics-and-the-basic-principle-of-visualization-magick.md

2. 02 · yt0.801

   You you set these are the rules that we are we adopt to prove things. Then you what Gödel shows is an amazing thing. I always thought it was amazing. There is a statement which you by virtue of your trust in these rules, you can see that it's true. Yet, you can't prove it by the rules. Now, I found this absolutely amazing because it means you're you don't use the rules to to understand things because how do you know this thing is true? Well, you know it's true but because you trust the rules. Well, it's you're you're if you're using the rules, then how do you know that using the rules only giv…

   yt/OoDi856wLPM-sir-roger-penrose-stuart-hameroff-collapsing-a-theory-of-qua/transcript.txt

3. 03 · yt0.797

   No in fact probably a 100 top physicists today want to start from the whole and derive the parts because they have understood that trying to go the other way gives you know leaves you empty-handed. Yeah. In fact, you know, string theory which tried to explain reality from the parts which are strings that vibrates [snorts] did not succeed. And you know, it took about 80 years of hard work. At one point 90% of the, you know, the physicist, the theoretical physicist were working on string theory. >> They didn't get anywhere. So that's that's telling you that no, we have to start with the wh…

   yt/cXlxCOoNZ7E-spacetime-is-the-memory-of-a-self-knowing-universe-federico-/transcript.txt

4. 04 · yt0.792

   Physicists like, especially after a certain age, to look around the intellectual landscape and see other fields of inquiry that are not physics and go, I could do that better than they can. I'm a physicist. How hard can it be? This is not what I'm here to do. I am not going to give you definitive final answers about any of these things. But I do think that there is a common vocabulary, a common ground in which we can discuss these various issues. And that's really what I'm here to talk about. So I want to start with a simple question that is uh related to physics but one that also is related t…

   yt/rqezWO5Yba8-sean-carrol-the-big-picture-on-the-origins-of-life-meaning-a/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.790

   So, this will remind you that physics is, after all, an experimental science and you will be able to see where all the laws of physics come from. So, if you're going to take it, you should take it at the same time. Yes? Student: Could you please talk about when you expect [inaudible] Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Ah, very good. This is a calculus-based class and I expect everyone to know at least the rudiments of differential calculus. What's a function, what's a derivative, what's a second derivative, how to take derivatives of elementary functions, how to do elementary integrals. Sometime lat…

   yt/KOKnWaLiL8w-1-course-introduction-and-newtonian-mechanics/transcript.txt

6. 06 · yt0.789

   Prof: All right, today's topic is the theory of nearly everything, okay? You wanted to know the theory of everything? You're almost there, because I'm finally ready to reveal to you the laws of quantum dynamics that tells you how things change with time. So that's the analog of F = ma. That's called the Schrˆdinger equation, and just about anything you see in this room, or on this planet, anything you can see or use is really described by this equation I'm going to write down today. It contains Newton's laws as part of it, because if you can do the quantum theory, you can always find hidden in…

   yt/Iy6RspNw80E-24-quantum-mechanics-vi-time-dependent-schr-dinger-equation/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.787

   How do we know that this isn't just pure mathematics? And that would take us into a wonderful conversation along the lines of the material that we just discussed. So yeah, I think he would warm to these ideas pretty quickly. Do you think we're sort of in the realm of philosophy here? One of the criticisms that I see of string theory as somebody who doesn't understand the first thing about it is that because of this lack of experimental data, you can say that in principle it could be tested. But there are all kinds of philosophical theories that in principle we could test. Ideas about personal …

   yt/o9z5il_FQUw-string-theory-multiverse-and-divine-design-brian-greene/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.786

   Now you use the word theories there and I know that you chose that word with care because a lot of times physicists and I look I sometimes use loose language too so I'm to blame for some of this as well but but physicists often talk about interpretations of quantum mechanics when perhaps they should use the word theory or at least is that how you would certainly I mean that you start with, as you say, you start with these observable numbers out of the lab. If you're doing an empirical science, that better be at some level what you start with as the thing you're trying to account for. And we ce…

   yt/VbXEc9vpeIM-what-we-ve-gotten-wrong-about-quantum-physics-world-science-/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.783

   I want to know, you mentioned earlier that  there's a difference between not only the way   that Malament does the philosophy of physics  compared to other philosophers of physics,   but you also mentioned that there's a  difference between the way philosophy   of physics is done and philosophy per  se as such. So, what is that difference? Well, I mean, I think one thing to say is that  philosophy of physics, even, is a very diverse   thing. So, there's all sorts of styles of  philosophy of physics. You've encountered &…

   yt/iGOGxaZZHwE-it-s-not-that-we-don-t-know-it-s-that-we-can-t/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.783

    Um, well, it's a curious word you used there, which was explain. Ah, because Yes. Yeah. I I should take that back, right? Yes. You know, because the the right I mean, I don't think this was exactly Boore's attitude. The common attitude is calculate. Predict tell me what the numbers will be, and if the numbers are right, that's all I want. Absolutely. Boore was actually trying to make a much more profound argument which was that a certain sort of explanation which had been provided by classical physics was no longer available. Just could not could not be found. There wasn't that nature didn't p…

    yt/VbXEc9vpeIM-what-we-ve-gotten-wrong-about-quantum-physics-world-science-/transcript.txt