SPONSORS: - Sign up for Claude today at https://Claude.ai/theoriesofeverything and checkout Claude Pro — which includes access to all of the features mentioned in today's episode - Accelerate your efficiency. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at http://shopify.com/theories - As a listener of TOE you can get a special 35% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toeQuantum theory may be the most successful theory in history — and Renato Renner has proved it can't consistently describe itself. This is not a philosophical objection. It's a theorem. From there it spirals into black holes, reference frames, and why some of his students refused to continue working on the subject. This one is a quiet storm, blending the foundations of physics with something uncomfortably personal: the question of what you are.FOLLOW:- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4TIMESTAMPS:- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LINKS MENTIONED:- Renato's Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OEBtlWgAAAAJ- Renato's Lecture at Helgoland [Lecture]: https://youtu.be/NxIyldEZzZI- Against Probability [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18872- Testing Quantum Theory with Thought Experiments [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05314- Quantum Advantage in Cryptography [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04078- Quantum Theory Cannot Consistently Describe the Use of Itself [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07422- Security of Quantum Key Distribution [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0512258- Thought Experiments in a Quantum Computer [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06236- The Black Hole Information Puzzle [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14653- Quanundrum Software: https://github.com/jangnur/Quanundrum- Wigner's Friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner's_friend- Reimagining of Schrödinger's Cat [Article]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reimagining-of-schroedingers-cat-breaks-quantum-mechanics-mdash-and-stumps-physicists1/- Collapse Theory [Paper]: http://www.psiquadrat.de/downloads/grw86.pdf- Entropy of Hawking Radiation [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06872- QBism [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5209- Respecting One's Fellow [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03572- Why Do Humans Reason? [Paper]: https://www.dan.sperber.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/MercierSperberWhydohumansreason.pdf- Quantum Mechanical Rules for Observed Observers [Paper]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47170-2- Game Theory [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0262061414?tag=toe08-20- Tim Maudlin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss- Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/gEK4-XtMwro- Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo- David Wallace [TOE]: https://youtu.be/4MjNuJK5RzM- David Bessis [TOE]: https://youtu.be/GHGi_XDqKNwMore links at https://curtjaimungal.substack.comGuests do not pay to appear. #scienceLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices