New Announcements and Upcoming Guests for 2022

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      "text": " The Economist covers math, physics, philosophy, and AI in a manner that shows how different countries perceive developments and how they impact markets. They recently published a piece on China's new neutrino detector. They cover extending life via mitochondrial transplants, creating an entirely new field of medicine. But it's also not just science they analyze."
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      "text": " Culture, they analyze finance, economics, business, international affairs across every region. I'm particularly liking their new insider feature. It was just launched this month. It gives you, it gives me, a front row access to The Economist's internal editorial debates."
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      "text": " Where senior editors argue through the news with world leaders and policy makers in twice weekly long format shows. Basically an extremely high quality podcast. Whether it's scientific innovation or shifting global politics, The Economist provides comprehensive coverage beyond headlines. As a toe listener, you get a special discount. Head over to economist.com slash TOE to subscribe. That's economist.com slash TOE for your discount."
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      "text": " All right. Hello, Toe listeners. Kurt here."
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      "text": " Well, it feels great to be back"
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      "text": " Thank you so much for sticking by and jointly exploring this discursive path of consciousness, theoretical physics, and the philosophy of what fundamental reality even means. Here's an outline of what to expect from the Theories of Everything project, the Toe Channel, in the next few months, and there are timestamps included for you to skip around. January, that is the next two weeks, all of this will be done in the next two weeks,"
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      "text": " We're dedicated thematically to exploring mathematics, limiting theorems, and the understanding of free will. Guests include"
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      "text": " of the autodidactic universe, string theory on the autodidactic universe, which is a machine learning model of physics whereby the universe generates its own laws or at least learns them in a manner akin to a restricted Boltzmann machine at least in their first draft of the autodidactic universe."
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      "text": " We're also going to be talking to Professor Norman Wildberger on why infinity isn't real, and by extension, the real numbers aren't necessarily real per se, that is, they don't correspond to something physical. The reason to explore limiting theorems and no-go theorems is because many people are constructing their own theory of everything, their own tau, and they do so with"
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      "text": " An overzealousness with a hubris rather than a humility as they valiantly claim some fact that trivially violates some no-go theorem or known limiting theorem in math and physics without realizing that they are. It's helpful to know when one is violating the bounds of what's considered to be possible or what's not possible and to subsequently show how you found a loophole by not using one of the assumptions that are integral to the no-go theorem."
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      "text": " Essentially, knowledge of limiting theorems are useful to both those who are trying to understand tolls and those who are trying to construct their own toll. February is a month where we'll be exploring more of the topic of UFOs and consciousness, starting with Salvatore Pais. Soon I'll make a post soliciting questions for Salvatore, as first what I want to do is go through the Navy patents with a fine-tooth comb, go through his papers,"
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      "text": " Scraped the surface of that book during other interviews and podcasts also in February Frank Yang is coming up on consciousness Carl Friston on consciousness as well, and I can announce here for the first time that Yoshi Bach and Donald Hoffman will be coming on for a theolocution on consciousness as well That's something we've been trying to schedule. We've been scheduling back and forth for almost a year and finally it's"
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      "text": " Looks like it's going to arrive in the middle of February. Additionally, and this is also in February, Herb Mertz is going to be coming on to speak about the Global Consciousness Project. We'll be exploring the connection between consciousness and randomness, which is a peculiar juxtaposition, I'm aware. However, there's anomalous data with respect to RNGs, that is random number generators, and"
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      "text": " high-valence emotional events such as a measurable deviation in randomness during globally fractious events like 9-11. It's a curious fact that these sensors, and I'll be speaking in detail about what these sensors are, that these sensors go off sometimes minutes prior to an actual event, which indicates that consciousness either interacts backward in time or has some predictive powers. Still, and we're in February, I have to read these now, we have a highly requested guest, Ah Almas, regarding consciousness."
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      "text": " as well as Gary Nolan regarding the physical evidence of UFO interactions and Noam Chomsky is coming on for a one-on-one, forget about live, forget about AMA, it's coming on for a one-on-one just about the philosophy of language and meaning. I'm super super excited about that in particular because I don't know the last time I was able to speak privately to Chomsky. Starting March, I'm going to be placing an emphasis on choosing new professors instead of the standard podcast trope of interviewing the same people"
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      "text": " over and over which leads to invariably to this feedback loop where the already famous are interviewed on every podcast. Even right now I'm on the lookout for new professors with new lines of research professors who don't have their own channel nor have been interviewed by many people to bring fresh ideas to the fore much like we did with the Michael Levin interview which I highly recommend. March will also be the month of exploring rigorous mathematical unification attempts such as that of"
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      "text": " Edward Frankel and the Langlands program, as well as Kevin Knuth has a new unannounced theory that links mathematics and physics, and Norman Wildberger has a new model of mathematics. Starting March, we're also going to be exploring more quantum gravity approaches like Euclidean gravity and asymptotically safe gravity, the latter of which is the only known quantum gravity approach that has some experimental validation, and yet almost no one in the public sphere talks about it."
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      "text": " And it would be great to help change that. There will also be the exploration of data on near-death experiences with Dean Radin. To be honest, from my cursory glance at this data about 15 years ago, and it lasted about 15 minutes, I didn't do much research, it seemed like there was so much data on it that the reports can be cherry-picked to indicate that consciousness survives after physical death."
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      "text": " and I've had that inexorable mindset in me since I was a contumelius atheist. However, much of what I thought to be true turned out to be vastly incorrect and I'd like to explore the veracity of these NDE claims rather than rejecting them prior to seriously looking into them. I think it'll be a great deal of fun."
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      "text": " Now, for the middle of the year, I'd like to start putting out more theolocutions. I'd like the Theories of Everything project to be a place where academics can conduct research and collaborate in front of an audience. For example, Michael Levin and Carl Friston will be coming on together later this year with each fomenting ideas in the other in a speculative fashion grounded in their research, much like what would happen behind the closed doors of academia, except now it will be in front of you. And by the way, I use that term project, the Theories of Everything project,"
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      "text": " judiciously rather than saying podcast because there's a goal in mind with the Toe channel that is decidedly not well let's just have a conversation it's best to think of Toe as the project of explicating the scrupulous mathematical unification attempts first and foremost and secondarily understanding what consciousness is and what its constitutive role is to fundamental reality and thirdly investigating some of the mysteries of the universe such as times arrow origins of life"
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      "text": " By the way, we're going to be doing that with Brian Keating and Lee Cronin soon. The placebo effect, etc. Hopefully this helps contextualize. To abbreviate, The Toe Project is more akin to dropping into a professor's office hours than it is a podcast per se, and in fact maybe the podcast format will be dropped in a year or two"
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      "text": " I don't know, but either way, that leads me naturally to the next point. Toward the end of the year, we'll be exploring more Eastern philosophies. Since, as I've been studying Fortot, both objectively, that is, the rational standard academic approach, and subjectively, that is, experientially, trying to live what's been preached, a meditative, a contemplative approach, I'm beginning to see the utility and simultaneously this inveigling quality"
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      "text": " of language, finding myself being drawn to that Wittgensteinian forsaken ladder where the whole point of talking is to realize that there's no point in talking. To this end, I'll be exploring philosophies precipitated by the Vedic traditions and at least attempting different meditative styles. Now I call this merging of the Western form of knowledge and the Eastern,"
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      "text": " You can think of it as an extension of the scientific enterprise, albeit with an altered epistemology. The latter half of the year is also dedicated to exploring some of the viewers' theories of everything, such as Tyler Goldstein's Theory of Everyone and Steve Agnew's Matter Action Theory, each of whom is active in the Discord, by the way, and the link to both the Discord"
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      "text": " and their work is in the description. There are two more substantial announcements, but first, you should know that if you'd like to contribute to the Toe channel, then do consider going to patreon.com slash Kurt Jaimungal, as the patrons and the sponsors like Brilliant, and even Amjad Hussein, of course, are the only reasons I'm able to do this full time. Currently, it's just me, Kurt, executing on everything from guest selection to guest booking to researching the papers, which is endlessly"
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      "text": " fascinating but also time-consuming, to time-stamping, to editing the episodes, and every dollar genuinely helps much more than you may think. Now on to the announcements. I'm working on a TOE manual, what I call a TOEM, and I imagine that by the end of the year it will be at a preliminary draft stage. It will be a rigorous explication of the TOES that I've encountered aimed at the graduate student level or at the sufficiently motivated undergraduate level."
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      "text": " It takes quite some time to write even a quarter of a page into this book, so if you don't hear about it for another year, then thank you for your patience. The last announcement is to placate those who are more interested in Weltanschaungs, that is, a framework through which to interpret the world, with an ontology that's consistent with action. During one of the summer months of this year, let's say July, I'll dedicate that month to the more cognitive scientific theories of everything,"
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      "text": " I hope this compendium was useful to you and that you now have a clearer understanding of the trajectory. Thank you so much. I'm glad you seem to be enjoying the podcast and finding some utility in it. Here's to 2022."
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