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Max Tegmark - What is Ultimate Reality?

2022-10-12 Education
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What is the deepest nature of things? Our world is complex, filled with so much stuff. But down below, what's most fundamental, what is ultimate reality? Is there anything nonphysical? Anything spiritual? Or only the physical world? Many feel certain of their belief, on each side of controversial question. Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Watch more interviews on reality and ontology: https://bit.ly/3G61elE Max Tegmark is Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a BS in Physics and a BA in Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He also earned a MA and PhD in physics from University of California, Berkeley. Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP Closer to Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

Top Comments (10)

@mr.dankman 2022-10-23

Well, if Max is right, then no wonder I've always felt like I don't understand life. I'm terrible at math.

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@ender2999 2022-12-11

Robert is so great at understanding the guests and challenging them. Such a great interviewer

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@suneasmussen2650 2022-10-12

I just fucking love watching you formulating your thoughts with such precision Mr. Robert Lawrance Kuhn. And done so in that wonderfull rustily deep voice.

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@tonyscalise4462 2022-10-14

This Max is amazing. I think he’s on to something. I need to watch this video a few more times.

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@cozyslor 2022-10-13

"Difference between a dead Beatle and a live Beatle". It always comes down to Lennon and McCartney.

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@mickyjohnson273 2022-10-27

Music, math and harmony are the tools used in the creation of the Universe. The Universe itself, or the physical, is just the result. There's still a creative force behind it.

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@meesalikeu 2022-10-18

our dr max caught out on the fly, but still droppin 4D spock chess moves.

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@jayjames7055 2022-10-12

tremendously interesting.

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@ronaldohlund1985 2024-11-09

This is heaven, when we talk about interesting interviews. They really match each others.

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@filosofiadetalhista 2025-06-21

I have become convinced of Tegmark's thesis in recent months. Physics has a relationalist (structuralist) interpretation. The mind might be structured information processing. His view explains why there is something rather than nothing; why mathematics is applicable; why maths is knowable; what abstract objects and universals afe; etc.

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