Phil and Stephen discuss why “reality” is a trickier proposition than we think.

 

A neuroscientist says your 'reality' could be entirely different from the person sitting next to you — and you'll never know how much

The broader point that Eagleman is working towards here is that everyone's reality is subjective. We're all trapped in our own brains but laughably confident that we're experiencing the world as it truly is.

 

 

A Theory of Reality as More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Agency doesn’t exist among the atoms, and so reductionism suggests agents don’t exist at all....Hoel’s theory, called “causal emergence,” roundly rejects this reductionist assumption.  

 

The Impossible Mathematics of the Real World

 

Near-miss math provides exact representations of almost-right answers.

 

 

OTHER GEEK

 

Audible Hack

 

Old-school geeking with ham radio

 

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