Matt O'Dowd: Free Will, Consciousness, Spacetime, and Dualism

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This episode has been released early in an ad-free audio version for TOE members at http://theoriesofeverything.org. Matt O'Dowd is the host of PBS Space Time and a Professor of Physics at the City University of New York. His upcoming film on physics and consciousness is called Inventing Reality. You can find out more here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/inventing-reality

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:17 What is PBS Spacetime?

00:05:38 Inventing reality

00:12:52 The scientific perspective of understanding reality

00:15:44 Metaphysics needs to be a part of "theory"

00:23:23 Material is "dual" to Consciousness

00:25:46 Ought from an "is"

00:32:12 Science is incomplete

00:55:21 The hard problem of consciousness

01:04:49 You have free will

01:37:15 Inconsistency in the universe

02:00:53 Terrence Deacon and "absence" / "nothingness"

02:06:52 Outro

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