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Lee Cronin: belief

9 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe

“I don’t just think that actually, this is a discussion I was having with Sara about that, where she was like, “Oh, I think we’ve been debating this for a long time now, about how do we reconcile novelty determinism in determinism.”

— Lee Cronin

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Speaker
Lee Cronin
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
9 Dec 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Multiverse. David Deutsche’s conception of the multiverse is given. But I think that the problem with wave particle duality in quantum mechanics is not about the multiverse. It’s about understanding how determined the past is. I don’t just think that actually, this is a discussion I was having with Sara about that, where she was like, “Oh, I think we’ve been debating this for a long time now, about how do we reconcile novelty determinism in determinism. ” Okay. Just to clarify, both you and Sara think the universe is not deterministic?…

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