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

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LINKS MENTIONED (soon to be titled -- give me one more day):

-Sabine Hossefelder's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder

-Testing Superdeterminism: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0286 / https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4326

-Other Superdeterminism articles: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02676 / 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

LINKS NOT MENTIONED BUT PERTINENT:

(Bernardo Kastrup recommends the below)

Papers indicating that physical realism is untrue and refuting classes of hidden variables theories:

-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

TIMESTAMPS:

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 interview

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