A Theory of Everything? | With Philip Ball, Vanessa Seifert, and Jessica Wilson
The biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Is there an even more general theory that can make sense of all the sciences? The various scientific disciplines each have their own methods, theories, and practices. This is the case even when different sciences try to explain the same phenomena. Can we translate between these distinct disciplines? What does this even mean? Might all of science be reduced to physics one day? Our panel discuss reduction, emergence, and the unity of the sciences.
Speakers
• 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗹, Science Writer
• 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘁, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bristol
• 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Chair
• 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy & IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
Co-sponsored by the the ERC-funded 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 project
Recorded on 15 March 2021
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Amazing discussion, thank you so much for publishing this videos.
The state of my flat compared with how clean and beautiful these people's rooms are!
I have had an idea that there are threads of time or space or spacetime that weave around each other like a helix or like streamers around a may pole without the pole. Before the strands are woven space-time is uncertain, after the strands are woven together there is a solid unchangeable past. I being a scientific simpleton have an 'Emperor's New Clothes' understanding perhaps?! Perhaps not but I am not taken in by complex scientific knowledge, which can sometimes be a good thing?