Sabine Hossenfelder Λ Bernardo Kastrup on Superdeterminism and Metaphysics [Theolocution]

Sabine Hossenfelder and Bernardo Kastrup discuss the prospects of superdeterminism as a solution to quantum foundations and its metaphysical implications. The conversation examines statistical independence, experimental falsifiability, and the role of consciousness in measurement while weighing philosophical objections.- 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 interviewSPONSORS:- Brilliant: 20% off at https://brilliant.org/TOE- Algo podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9IfRw1QaTglRoX0sN11AQQ- Algo website: https://www.algo.com/- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE- PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything- Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerchRESOURCES:- 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices