Amanda Gefter and Curt Jaimungal Talk Physics and Philosophy

As such discussions usually go, this is one is pretty good!

See Amanda Gefter on John Wheeler and Peter Putnam and Amanda Gefter on John Wheeler and Scientific Reality. Also Amanda Gefter on Ecological Cognition.

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And another video I watched today that was interesting is this one which was a talk given at The University of Oslo, May 22, 2013 by Ravi Vakil as part of the presentation of the Abel Prize to Pierre Deligne: Algebraic geometry and the ongoing unification of mathematics 

Towards the end he mentions Alexander Grothendieck, who was still alive, though not completely well at the time this talk was given. Grothendieck had developed some very deep relationships with plants in the Pyrenees, where he lived.

The connection with Amanda Gefter's discussion with Curt Jaimungal is unification of ways of describing the world, and that involves language and in particular mathematical language. See Martin Roelphs on Projective Geometric Algebra. When mathematicians talk about unification it is principally the unification of mathematical languages, which is the subject of Category Theory.

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