Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedJoel David Hamkins: belief
31 Dec 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #488 – Infinity, Paradoxes that Broke Mathematics, Gödel Incompleteness & the Multiverse – Joel David Hamkins
“Whereas I think that we do have something a little better of an understanding of the nature of mathematical existence and abstract existence.”
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- Speaker
- Joel David Hamkins
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 31 Dec 2025
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Yeah, experience. …and riding bicycles and all those things, but I don’t think we actually have an understanding at all, I mean, very, very little of the nature of physical existence. I think it’s a profound mystery. Whereas I think that we do have something a little better of an understanding of the nature of mathematical existence and abstract existence. So that’s how I would describe the point. Somehow it feels like we’re approaching some deep truth from different directions, and we just haven’t traveled as far in the physics world as we have in the mathematical world.…
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