Sabine Hossenfelder on How Reductionism Changed Her Life

See my comment:

1:18 So it doesn't change the fact that deep down you're an extreme reductionist. That doesn't bother me at all, as long as I'm not forced to listen to this stuff and be told that if I don't accept it I'm just ignorant and stupid! You, on the other hand are determined to go on preaching this stuff! You have no free will, just because you don't believe in it.

Then I exercised some of my quotient of free will and closed the tab, but after making this following video myself I decided I'd better watch the rest of it and then I made this comment:

4:37 Just because we can describe any physical setup as a machine, that doesn't mean that it actually is a machine, because it might not carry on behaving that way, just like a jet engine is not a machine when it blows up. And the idea that a human being is therefore a machine and an AI, because it can "outperform us" could be a machine so complex that we don't understand it but nevertheless still a machine is just crazy. 

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I made a walking talking video, inspired by this:

See Gerald H. Pollack: Weather & EZ Water and Graham Priest on Revising Logic.

Here's Angela's recent free will in physics video:

 

On free will not  being a physics question, see Curt Jaimungal's post saying the same thing. On this business about putting different theories together and coming up with new conclusions (or incongruities) see Gabriele Carcassi's Physics and the law of leaky abstractions and Gabriele Carcassi on Physical Convergence:


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Jennan Ismael on Laplace's Daemon and the problem of representation, see Jenann Ismael - Laplace meets Godel: How Self reference Foils Prediction. 

20:33 "What we forget is that knowledge is part of the world, and it makes a difference to what happens".

22:36 On "flipping the script" see Toby Reading a Mathematical Poem "Flip" from Her New Book.

Her recent Foundations of Physics paper A Participatory Universe in the Realist Mode: On the Separation of Observational and Agentive Perspectives in Classical and Quantum Mechanics is about interference in her sense of the term and what she calls the Logic of measurement vs. the Logic of choice. It's very readable.

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