Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Theories of Everything
The Physicist Who Proved Free Will Using Thermodynamics
2 hour 18 minutes Posted Jul 10, 2025 at 10:52 pm.
Introduction
Free Will
The Limits of Predictability
Defining Free Will
Life and Cognition in the Universe
The Choices We Make
Dark Nights of the Soul
Philosophical Responses to Free Will
Personal Reflections on Life
The Weight of Loss
Patterns of Persistence
Understanding the Self
The Continuity of Existence
The Nature of Mortality
Time and Its Mysteries
The Nature of Existence
The Paradox of Newcomb's Dilemma
Lessons Learned from Suffering
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Physicist and philosopher Jenann Ismael joins to unveil a radical idea: free will isn’t an illusion, it’s a physical reality grounded in thermodynamics and relativity. In this conversation, Jenann explains why no system, not even a perfect computer, can predict its own future, and how this inherent unpredictability opens the door to real agency. We explore the paradox of identity, the limits of determinism, the role of memory in selfhood, and why your choices truly come from you. This is the clearest, most rigorous defense of free will in the age of physics.
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Links Mentioned:
•⁠ ⁠How Physics Makes Us Free [Book]: https://amzn.to/44CcHr8
•⁠ ⁠Why Physics Should Care About The Mind [Paper]: https://www.jenanni.com/wp-content/uploads/Why-physics-should-care-about-the-mind-and-how-to-think-about-it-without-worrying-about-the-mind-body-problem.pdf
•⁠ ⁠Diana Pasulka [TOE]: https://youtu.be/E5MuTHUbMUs
•⁠ ⁠Leonard Susskind [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2p_Hlm6aCok
•⁠ ⁠Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo
•⁠ ⁠Matt Segall [TOE]: https://youtu.be/DeTm4fSXpbM
•⁠ ⁠Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss
•⁠ ⁠David Lewis’s Metaphysics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lewis-metaphysics/#Bib
•⁠ ⁠Robert Sapolsky [TOE]: https://youtu.be/z0IqA1hYKY8
•⁠ ⁠David Lewis’s Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B000APAW62
•⁠ ⁠Stephen Wolfram [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0YRlQQw0d-4
•⁠ ⁠Roy Baumeister [TOE]: https://youtu.be/aXoK-C2c2AQ
•⁠ ⁠Free Will Ontoprism [TOE]: https://youtu.be/SSbUCEleJhg
•⁠ ⁠Michael Levin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s
•⁠ ⁠Dark Night Of The Soul: https://basilica.ca/documents/2016/10/St.%20John%20of%20the%20Cross-Dark%20night%20of%20the%20soul.pdf
•⁠ ⁠George Musser [TOE]: https://youtu.be/KVy3NeXpMaI
•⁠ ⁠Tim Maudlin & Tim Palmer [TOE]: https://youtu.be/883R3JlZHXE
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