Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, The Big Bang, Aliens, Death, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #232

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   0:27 – Entropy
   8:35 – Consciousness
   24:54 – Quantum gravity
   28:14 – String theory
   41:41 – Time
   54:13 – Free will
   58:36 – Emergence and complexity
   1:05:48 – The Big Bang
   1:18:47 – Extraterrestrial life
   1:29:09 – Space exploration
   1:37:07 – Fear of death

2. Brian I'm sorry but humans will NEVER understand how awareness works because your awareness comes from beyond. You are a smart person but unfortunately you and other scientist are only able to study what you are seeing in a visual limited experience. Your basically studying what your seeing through. You cannot see beyond which is where your awareness is coming from. Particles do not provide taste, feel, touch, love, pain and thoughts. To think that particles come together and create love and taste of milk is not possible. One person likes the taste of milk the other person does not. Perhaps your awareness is not yours but God's to experience different things through you and I

3. I can't seem to grasp the idea the new dimensions are smaller, because our own dimensions and the geometry we use can describe any size and is not related to size. If something is extremely small or extremely large, it's still going to be described using the dimensions that we know

4. I just love Dr. B. Green, he’s so smart and sensible, capable to get to the intricacies of the existence . Thank you Lex for all the beautiful minds you share with us, the commons

5. I wander what Brian's opinion is now regarding what's going on in the uap world, I've watched Brian for years and love his stuff but he seems to be one of many that seem very quiet on the subject, these guys should be banging the doors down cos I would imagine most of them will be furious to find out they've been deprived of this technology and knowledge for all these years, I'm just curious to hear their opinion

6. I literally thought the same thing. What if the quest for answers is the meaning of life.

7. such respect for this man

8. love Brian Greene, watch all videos with him, would watch hours and hours, and then watch it again ; the way he explains all is easy to understand ; he's highly intelligent human as well, make me vey happy we have people like Brian Greene, love love him 🙂

9. He is stupid

10. Skipped. Who created the law of physics, it makes no sense to say they were just “there”. There is a deeper world. Not “God” but way more that we can’t comprehend. I hate when smart people speak their theories as facts, because all of them have different answers.

11. 🙄"other dimensions", ok bud

12. To have Brian Greene as your professor would be amazing. I would apply to Columbia's physics program just to listen to his lectures lol.

13. Talking about irreversible terrors – what about kids being told to chop their genitalia off & become the opposite sex? I wish young, popular scientists, like Lex, spoke truth to power & took a stand against the gender ideologues.

14. Thank you Lex.
    You are a great asset to the world
    Stay Safe and Stay Free xxxx

15. Even tho' i like you guys, as 'existentialists,' i disagree, in principle:
    If YOU CARE, then, you'd be surprised, what comes-back, to ultimately 'care about you'… personally… 🙂

    )…THAT, would be, 'the quantum-conclusion(s),' of 'particle-physics'… that, which WE REFUSE TO EXTRAPOLATE… as 'unscientific,' b/c 'unprovable'… lol …💜💧💜

    If IT, universally, is not-nothing, how could WE, 'be nothing' ? :(:):

    )…i listened well, & thought a lot, & a long time congealed it, in my Philosophy Major, with Physics, 'minor'… lol 🙂

16. Consciousness is not a "thing that happens when particles come together." There are two fields of life — the relative world we all see and examine, and the Absolute which is a field of pure consciousness that underlies and supports everything that exists in the material world. It gives rise to the relative world. This is all delineated in the ancient Vedic texts and can even be directly experienced through the Transcendental Meditation technique, an experience of just your Self, your awareness all by itself, non-moving and eternal.

17. If there is no free will then does that mean there is no multiverse ? Or shroudinger etc since everything is already determined by physical law ? Ie no decision- no real observer effect since it is all already written in the laws of physics

18. Mars-Earth-Mars-Earth-Mars-Earth-Mars-Earth——

19. Vermin freemasons

20. When you make feeling good a priority, that magnificent frequency will radiate and touch everyone close to you.

21. He is not as out of control or delusional as Michio. I do and have bought his books and his podcasts and WSU are pretty useful. String theory stuff can just slide.

22. 48:50
    they'll tell you scientists have no place in politics, but then you hear stuff like:

    "the physics community doesn't speak with a unified voice on this as yet"

23. 13:25 Consciousness is not scientific and is only a result of complex intelligence. Biology is complex chemistry and chemistry is complex physics.

24. 1:26:35 – I first heard this from NDT, and he put it forth as a definitive reason to believe that aliens even a small percentage more intelligent than us would never slow down to take a look at us.

    It's apparent to me that curiosity accompanies intelligence in some proportion. And it only takes a few curious explorers among a population of super-intelligent aliens to study humans and keep the entries for our species updated in their science journals and encyclopedias, the same way that just a few curious intellectual humans have made a great deal of knowledge about myriad species of ants available to any human with sufficient interest and access to wikipedia. It's always struck me as odd that such "elite" science communicators would have a gap in their reasoning the size of that simple idea.

25. I fall asleep listening to Brian Greene videos 4 nights a week 😁

26. I believe in existence. I believe I exist. Our existence does not suddenly come out of nothingness nor does it become consigned to nothingness at some point in the future. Tremendous evidence has to be tritely shoved aside to assume otherwise. As some approach their presumed end in death they "come back ". The NDE is a profound effect. It's as though life is a combination of dimensions. We as human beings are composed of ordinary matter from the dimension we are most familiar with but we also have real connections to one or more other dimensions. Where is the "dark energy and matter "? Could life forces exist there? Are NDE's showing us that existence is actual and continuous? We are a part of progression that reaches all the way to the VERY limits of potential. Tell me where the limit MUST end! Potential is endless! All power can be achieved and HAS been achieved.

27. Could someone stop messing with the lights, please?

28. If they ever do a remake of The Twilight Zone, ex could play Rod Serling. He is a spit image of looks and demeanour.

29. To talk about death is spectacular but senseless; what truly frightens a person the most is suffering, which can only be felt if one is alive.

30. It's astounding how far you guys have gone, and how tiny that level is. Just think what we will discover and understand in 100 years, 500 years? Today will be history even in 50 years. Look at us in 1960 and now.

31. How can we accept the "debunking" of a video, when there is additional evidence (radar, SA systems, eyewitnesses)?

    "Oh, this could be a balloon."

    "Um, sure, excluding the fact that 4 pilots saw the object do x, y, and z."

    The best is the "internal reflections" nonsense, which is as far as a stretch as "swamp gas".

    This $20M aircraft with a $3M optical targeting system is apparently "malfunctioning" at the same moment multiple aircrew are witnessing an unknown aircraft exhibiting outstanding behavior and flight characteristics.

32. Idk how i got here i fell asleep on my phone but i watched a total of 4 hours of these podcasts.

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