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Max Erik Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute. He is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and has accepted donations from Elon Musk to investigate existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence.
Tegmark was born in Sweden, the son of Karin Tegmark and American-born professor emeritus of mathematics Harold S. Shapiro. He graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and later received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. After having worked at the University of Pennsylvania, he is now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While still in high-school, Max wrote, and sold commercially, together with school buddy Magnus Bodin, a word processor written in pure machine code for the Swedish eight-bit computer ABC 80, and the 3D Tetris-like game Frac.
Samuel Benjamin "Sam" Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist. Harris is the co-founder and chief executive of Project Reason, a non-profit organization that promotes science and secularism, and host of the podcast: Waking Up with Sam Harris. As an author, he wrote the book The End of Faith, which was published in 2004 and appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks. The book also won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2005. In 2006, Harris published the book Letter to a Christian Nation as a response to criticism of The End of Faith. This work was followed by The Moral Landscape, published in 2010, in which Harris argues that science can help answer moral problems and can aid the facilitation of human well-being. He subsequently published a long-form essay Lying in 2011, the short book Free Will in 2012, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion in 2014 and Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue in 2015.
Required viewing for anyone who still believes Max Tegmark's 1999 attack on Orch-OR (http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9907009) constitutes a valid criticism. A retraction still has not been published. Also features a lecture from Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay. This video comes from a free University of Arizona podcast, and is posted in full to ensure that no argument has been distorted or left out. I certainly hope they don't mind me reposting this, as I am making no profit and am putting it up solely for educational purposes. The original can be found at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/...
Our universe isn't just described by mathematics, but it is mathematics. Specifically, it's a mathematical structure. Our world doesn't just have some mathematical properties: it fundamentally has only mathematical properties. Subscribe for more science talks! http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Why is mathematics so spectacularly successful at describing the cosmos? In this Ri talk, MIT physics professor Max Tegmark proposes a radical idea: that our physical world is not only described by mathematics, but that it is mathematics. He shows how this theory may provide answers to the nature of reality itself. This event was filmed at the Royal Institution on January 30 2014. Watch more science videos on the Ri Channel http://richannel.org The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Face...
Max Tegmark visited Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book, "Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality". The book describes his quest to explore the ultimate nature of reality, from the microcosm to our universe and beyond. Dr. Tegmark is an MIT physics professor who loves thinking about life's big questions. He is author or coauthor of more than two hundred technical papers, and his work with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey collaboration on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazine's "Breakthrough of the Year 2003".
As a physicist, Max Tegmark sees people as "food, rearranged." That makes his answer to complicated questions like "What is consciousness?" simple: It's just math. Why? Because it's the patterns, not the particles, that matter. Learn more about Max Tegmark at http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/mathematical.html and TEDxCambridge at http://www.tedxcambridge.com. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but i...
Lecture from the mini-series "Cosmology & Quantum Foundations" from the "Philosophy of Cosmology" project. A University of Oxford and Cambridge Collaboration.
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From Sam Harris blog: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-multiverse-you-you-you-you
Was mathematics invented or discovered? Is everything mathematically predetermined? Is there no such thing as free will? Subscribe for more science talks! http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Following his talk at the Ri in January 2014, Max Tegmark invited questions from the audience. This Q&A; delves into the deep conundrums of consciousness, free will and physicality, exploring the idea that our universe is an entirely mathematical structure. Why is mathematics so spectacularly successful at describing the cosmos? In his Ri talk from January 30 2014, MIT physics professor Max Tegmark proposed a radical idea: that our physical world is not only described by mathematics, but that it is mathematics. He showed how this theory may provide answers to the nature of reality itself. This event was filme...
We know that there is not Nothing. There is Something. It is not the case that there is no world, nothing at all, a blank. It is the case that there is a world. Nothing did not obtain. But why? Click here to watch more interviews on the reason there is something rather than nothing http://bit.ly/1TcRCeR Click here to watch more interviews with Max Tegmark http://bit.ly/19LefkO Click here to buy episodes or complete seasons of Closer To Truth http://bit.ly/1LUPlQS For all of our video interviews please visit us at www.closertotruth.com
DEAR SUBSCRIBERS: The short simpsons clip at 27:34 that is used as fair use (teaching) has been flagged for copyright infringement by Fox. I now cannot upload long videos and I don't feel like disputing because it could result in the closure of this channel. I might create a new channel in the future because I have plenty more lectures to post. Please feel free to tell Fox what you think of them in the comments below. ------------------------ Max Tegmark MIT June 25, 2013 First of three lectures on Cosmology given by Max Tegmark at the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics. Video can also be found here: http://physicslearning.colorado.edu/tasi/tasi_2013/tasi_2013.htm
Discover the theory of multiple parallel universes with physicist, MIT professor, and author Max Tegmark.
Max Tegmark interviews Elon Musk about his life and his decision to fund research for keeping artificial intelligence beneficial
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It is my pleasure and delight to interview MIT's Cosmologist Professor Max Tegmark about his new book The Mathematical Universe. We will learn about his history, background and take a journey in to the world of Physics, Cosmomology, Mathematics and Reality. Is our physical existence and Universe a mathematical construct? Is there more than one Universe-- e.g. Mutliverse? Let's see what he proposes... In his own words: "This book is my personal quest for the ultimate nature of reality, which I hope you'll enjoy seeing through my eyes. Together, we'll explore the clues that I personally find the most fascinating, and try to figure out what it all means." I first saw Dr. Max Tegmark on television's Discovery Science Channel and was pleased to see he has an extremely charismatic and engaging...
The search for meaning and purpose is humanity's never-ending quest. Some say that 'how' questions belong to the realm of science, but 'why' questions do not. Yet extraordinary scientific discoveries offer radical powers of explanation. Can 'why' questions be brought into science? What about the biggest 'why' of them all? For more on information and video interviews with Max Tegmark click here http://bit.ly/19LefkO For more videos answering the question 'why the cosmos?' click here http://bit.ly/19LjK2T For more Closer to Truth interview videos, please visit http://www.closertotruth.com
More than one universe? It's a ridiculous question no more. How could multiple universes be generated, and can we ever find evidence, one way or another, for their actual existence? Click here for more interviews with Max Tegmark http://bit.ly/19LefkO Click here for more interviews on how many universes exist http://bit.ly/1IqQFLm Click here to buy episodes or complete seasons of Closer To Truth http://bit.ly/1LUPlQS For all of our video interviews please visit us at www.closertotruth.com
Is Ultimate Reality Physical or Non physical & What is the Relationship between Consciousness and Mathematics? Known as "Mad Max" for his unorthodox ideas & passion for adventure, #MIT Professor #MaxTegmark shares his scientific interests from precision cosmology to the ultimate nature of reality, all explored in his new popular book "Our Mathematical Universe". Watch his full #ONEWORLD conversation with #DeepakChopra on #NEWSWIREFM: http://newswire.fm/one_world/videosub.php?guest_id=355
Richard Dawkins interview with Björn Ulvaeus (of the ABBA group) in Stockholm Sweden on the 12th of December 2015. Discussing a myriad of interesting subjects on Dawkins tour of his new book "Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science" (The brief introduction is in Swedish, Dawkins comes in at 1:03) More Science videos with Max Tegmark and Nobel Laureates are up on the Channel now too :)