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- Go to https://shortform.com/toe for a free trial and an exclusive $50 OFF on your annual subscription.- I subscribe to The Economist for their science and tech coverage. As a TOE listener, get 35% off! No other podcast has this: https://economist.com/TOEGeorge Ellis is one of those guests who makes you rethink what you thought you understood. Co-author with Stephen Hawking of the singularity theorems, he's spent decades insisting on something most physicists won't touch: that reductionism is simply — patently — false. Physics doesn't decide outcomes. Context does. The thermostat sets the temperature. The algorithm tells the electrons what to do. The physics is the servant, not the master.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:- George's Papers: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1010821- George's Books: https://amazon.com/stores/George-Francis-Rayner-Ellis/author/B00287T2PW- Arrow of Time [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.7291- Why Reductionism Does Not Work [Paper]: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-63187-4_6- Recognizing Top-Down Causation [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2275- Top-Down Causation by Information Control [Paper]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3226993/- Causal Closure of Physics [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00972- Issues in Philosophy of Cosmology [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602280- The Music of Life [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0199228361?tag=toe08-20- How Can Physics Underlie the Mind? [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/3662498073?tag=toe08-20- Large Scale Structure of Space-Time [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0521099064?tag=toe08-20- The Selfish Gene [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0199291152?tag=toe08-20- World Beyond Physics [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0190871334?tag=toe08-20- Contextual Wavefunction Collapse [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08171- A Theory of Biological Relativity [Paper]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23386960/- Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness [Paper]: https://consc.net/papers/facing.pdf- Denis Noble [TOE]: https://youtu.be/K-U-ZB3yHK4- Michael Levin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s- Sean Carroll [TOE]: https://youtu.be/9AoRxtYZrZo- Quantum Physics, Digital Computers, and Life [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06306- Dynamical Emergence of Biology from Physics [Paper]: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.01966/full- The Whole Truth [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0691231354?tag=toe08-20- Endless Forms Most Beautiful [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0393327795?tag=toe08-20- Topology and Cosmology [Paper]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02450512More links at https://curtjaimungal.substack.comGuests do not pay to appear. #scienceLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices