Rick Rosner: When interviewing you about your work, I wanted to apologize for a couple of things. One is that I went off on a tangent about quantum mechanics because I thought you had started this Canadian quantum mechanics institute. You don’t have a graduate degree in quantum mechanics. So, I had many questions about how …
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I was recalling something from a Louis C.K. special. He is not in vogue right now because of his controversies. Louis C.K. was a prominent comedian. He remains relatively prominent and has regained some of his prominence. He was known for his honest yet gritty comedy. He often dealt with life in …
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Rick Rosner: Round four. All right, you sent a list of some other topics to discuss. Let’s start with diet. You eat pretty healthfully. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes, for the most part, I fast for at least 16 hours a day. The eating window varies, ranging from a maximum of eight hours to sometimes as …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: My wife just turned on a documentary about the Brat Pack. It was filmed 35 years after the Brat Pack era by one of the actors characterized as being in the Brat Pack, Andrew McCarthy. Whenever I watch anything like this, or like tonight, when Jimmy Kimmel is hosting a fundraiser for …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: You had assigned homework for me, which I didn't complete because I took a nap. You wanted to discuss the role of God in Judaism? It's not only that, but a specific concept within a particular reform of Judaism. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The idea involves the Hebrew word for Messiah, meaning anointed. In …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I wanted to talk about the comparison and contrast between American styles of women's rights and Canadian styles, focusing on what Canadians and Americans are doing better. In my view, Canadians are probably doing better, even though the United States is a wealthier country. In the contemporary period, Canadian women …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, what if at the lowest level, the world, lowest magnitudes, time doesn't exist? While at the higher levels, higher magnitudes, time begins to emerge and, in fact, becomes a major factor in the general business of the universe, the general informational processing of reality. There is self-interaction between the …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, you sent me close to a dozen definitions of information as defined by various disciplines. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes. Then I decided to take a broader, big-picture angle by examining the different levels of information. It fundamentally revolves around incompleteness. Our methods of understanding, such as the scientific method, rely …
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In-Sight Publishing Born to do Math 58 – Hows, then Whys (Part 2) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 18, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: We have the principle that you can only be in one world at a time, or that at least macro objects that you interact with are unitary …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 168 – Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (Part 3) Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 15, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: However, I think you were also implying like emergent order. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The universe has limits in information. The spontaneous symmetry breaking seems to me like a …
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