The Slow Death of Scientific Innovation | Gregory Chaitin

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Gregory Chaitin is a pioneering mathematician and computer scientist, renowned for founding algorithmic information theory. Gregory published his first groundbreaking paper at the age of 15 and has been a key figure at the Institute for Advanced Study, contributing extensively to the fields of metabiology and complexity theory.

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- Algorithmic Information Theory (book): https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Information-Cambridge-Theoretical-Computer/dp/0521616042

- Gregory Chaitin on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMPnrNL3zsE

- Institute for Advanced Study (site): https://www.ias.edu/

- Joscha Bach and Karl Friston on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcQMYNi9a2w

- Brian Greene on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2EtTE9Czzo

- World Science Festival (site): https://cdn.worldsciencefestival.com/

- The Limits of Understanding (Chaitin and Minsky): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfY-DRsE86s

- Rebecca Goldstein on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkL3BcKEB6Y

- Rebecca Goldstein’s novel: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Body-Problem-Contemporary-American-Fiction/dp/0140172459

- Rebecca Goldstein’s book on Spinoza: https://www.amazon.com/Betraying-Spinoza-Renegade-Modernity-Encounters-ebook/dp/B002JKVXG4/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=rivGj&content-id=amzn1.sym.f76d456a-cb0d-44de-b7b0-670c26ce80ba&pf_rd_p=f76d456a-cb0d-44de-b7b0-670c26ce80ba&pf_rd_r=138-5679914-4668743&pd_rd_wg=AKE2J&pd_rd_r=752b687b-83e1-4181-b3e6-789765943a84&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk

- Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRlQQw0d-4

- David Chalmers’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Mind-Search-Fundamental-Philosophy/dp/0195117891

- David Chalmers on Mindfest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r9V1ryksnw

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

01:12 - Contradictions in Mathematics

10:56 - Generating New Ideas

21:10 - Physics in History

23:17 - Academia is like a Prison

26:09 - Philosophers and Math

37:41 - Advice for Curt

42:15 - Outro / Support TOE

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