Paul Davies (Part 2) - Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?

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Mathematics describes the real world of atoms and acorns, stars and stairs, with remarkable precision. So is mathematics invented by humans just like chisels and hammers and pieces of music? Or is mathematics discovered-always out there, somewhere, like mysterious islands waiting to be found? Whatever mathematics is will help define reality itself.
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Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist and astrobiologist. He is Regents’ Professor of Physics and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University, where he also runs a cancer research project and co-directs a cosmology program. He is also a Visiting Professor of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, a Visiting Professor Physics at the University of New South Wales and a Fellow of University College London. His research ranges from the origin of the universe to the origin of life and the nature of time.
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  • @toomanythings5059
    @toomanythings50592 жыл бұрын

    Loved this video, as well as part one, but... Am I the only one thinking that it has nothing to do with its title? How's any of this about whether mathematics is discovered or invented?

  • @simesaid

    @simesaid

    2 жыл бұрын

    To be fair, Paul *does* mention the 'M' word just before the video ends, so I guess it's not strictly clickbait (if you're into mathematics, that is...personally speaking, just the threat of having to manually compute a long-division function is enough to induce immediate chest pains with a syncopated heartbeat. Thankfully for me then, I discovered long ago that the menus for Mr Kuhn's KZread fare rarely, if ever, accord with what he places before you on the actual plate. Nevertheless, by the time a nice washed-rind Gruyere is politely offered ('courtesy of the owner'), I have generally found the food here to be worth chewing over. Hopefully you are now also *closer to the palatable truth.* 👨🏻‍🍳

  • @ASLUHLUHCE
    @ASLUHLUHCE3 жыл бұрын

    Once again, great discussion, but the title of the video is incorrect

  • @Boogieplex
    @Boogieplex2 жыл бұрын

    You can literally hear the interviewers stomach growling loudly throughout the interview ,especially at 2:38,5:55 and 5:59.

  • @joel230182

    @joel230182

    2 жыл бұрын

    those are demons

  • 2 жыл бұрын

    😬

  • @tom3fitzgerald

    @tom3fitzgerald

    2 жыл бұрын

    next time grab a snickers before the interview

  • @Sindisile

    @Sindisile

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂

  • @colonialcliff

    @colonialcliff

    10 ай бұрын

    Any thoughts on the content of the discussion yet?

  • @ahmedp800
    @ahmedp8004 жыл бұрын

    So many videos! It's like Christmas and I dont even celebrate Christmas!

  • @DawnHub666

    @DawnHub666

    3 жыл бұрын

    They are all nonsense

  • @Ensource

    @Ensource

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DawnHub666 shut up

  • @DawnHub666

    @DawnHub666

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Ensource no u

  • @ASLUHLUHCE
    @ASLUHLUHCE3 жыл бұрын

    Watched

  • @YogiCecily
    @YogiCecily Жыл бұрын

    “Sufficiently imaginative” ❤

  • @davidredinger5938
    @davidredinger59383 жыл бұрын

    The noise at 2:41 is weird.???

  • @rggndfw

    @rggndfw

    3 жыл бұрын

    a dog?

  • @joel230182

    @joel230182

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rggndfw the devil

  • @stevecoley8365
    @stevecoley83652 жыл бұрын

    X-Files Math is the language of the hostile alien vampires (greed). The capitalist counting corpses can create stark, sterile space stations floating in emptiness and futuristic bombers. But unlike earthling poets, artists, musicians, mystics, human beings and creators of joy...the capitalist counting corpses that rule US can't create harmony (real intelligence) because vampires (greed) are ignorant (dead). Vampires (greed) who suck the joy out of life have joined the zombies who eat the futures of their children. Zombie Apocalypse is here and happening now.

  • @philosophia7389
    @philosophia73894 жыл бұрын

    The Nature of Reality forever elusive -Peace & Love

  • @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely. What can a being trapped in thought ever know of the reality of what his thoughts are merely about.

  • @REDPUMPERNICKEL
    @REDPUMPERNICKEL Жыл бұрын

    Neither Invented or Discovered but Evolved in a world of conscious thought that itself evolved out of the social processes going on in groupish apes as they struggled to survive and replicate more often.

  • 2 жыл бұрын

    Maybe there were other universes (multiverse) in the past before our universe. Maybe, like evolution in living organisms, there was an evolution regarding physical laws in different universes. Not all universes with different laws have survived. Maybe they had 1 second life, 100 years of life, and then evolved to another universe. Maybe our universe is the only one that survived with these physical laws. Because these physical laws adapted to the environment (universe) and were able to survive to that day. This universe has also an end, then maybe after our universe cycle will continue.

  • @transparent91
    @transparent913 жыл бұрын

    0:01-0:16 is basically everyone lol

  • @BILLY-px3hw
    @BILLY-px3hw2 жыл бұрын

    If consciousness exsists in any universe it is not fake, if it exists then it is real, a "fake universe" is not fake, it is part of everything that exists, in order for a universe to be fake it cannot exsist, a "fake universe" is simply a different kind of universe

  • @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    Жыл бұрын

    Indeed. A conscious being is conscious whether of what he is conscious is real or simulated.

  • @davidthurman3963
    @davidthurman39632 жыл бұрын

    To frame the question correctly "Is creativity invented or discovered?" That seems like a goofy question. There seems to be a built in assumptions to the question.

  • @ekschiz
    @ekschiz4 жыл бұрын

    I would like to ask Paul Davies about The Great Art

  • @MattHanr

    @MattHanr

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Great Art of mustache growing?

  • @ekschiz

    @ekschiz

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MattHanr 😊 if u don’t know, u do t know…

  • @edgarceliceo620
    @edgarceliceo6202 жыл бұрын

    Reality doesn't exist without nothingness and nothingness doesn't exist without reality.

  • @SimonMclennan
    @SimonMclennan Жыл бұрын

    To understand is not to understand. Does a rock understand the nature of its hardness or the wind the meaning of its swirling dance and the motion of the leaves, when light falls like rain on the surface of the mathematical formulas and the twisting tongues of foolish apes. Why would there be logic or rules and laws? A mathematics of desire.

  • @michaelshortland8863
    @michaelshortland88632 жыл бұрын

    42.

  • @GeoCoppens
    @GeoCoppens4 жыл бұрын

    Consciousness is BIOLOGY!!!

  • @user-dc4bl1cu2k

    @user-dc4bl1cu2k

    2 жыл бұрын

    Possibly. But we dont know for sure. We do know that not all biology is conscious though. Like a chocolate cake.

  • @GeoCoppens

    @GeoCoppens

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@user-dc4bl1cu2k Utter rubbish from an ignoramus!

  • @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    Жыл бұрын

    Consciousness is SOCIOLOGY!!!

  • @GeoCoppens

    @GeoCoppens

    Жыл бұрын

    @@REDPUMPERNICKEL Idiot ignoramus!

  • @liamcelt1321
    @liamcelt1321 Жыл бұрын

    Thats one hell of a mustache...........

  • @YuTv1408
    @YuTv140810 ай бұрын

    I love this... but all these British guys talk to damn fast... they need to use consciousness to realize they need to slow down so others fully understand and digest the information.

  • @antoniomoyal
    @antoniomoyal2 жыл бұрын

    No one says believing in God means stopping thinking.

  • @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    Жыл бұрын

    I think there are some who do say that. But they don't say all thought is stopped. They say some thoughts concerning morality are stopped. Many people find 'ethics' to be a very difficult topic and some avoid the difficulty by referring and deferring to a book.

  • @chrislloyd5415
    @chrislloyd54152 ай бұрын

    Clearly the answer is 42.

  • @MrRamon2004
    @MrRamon20042 жыл бұрын

    Was discovered. Stay in the bright side.

  • @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    Жыл бұрын

    Mathematics is a language that like all languages, evolved for definite purposes in a variety of cultures.

  • @1701_FyldeFlyer
    @1701_FyldeFlyer4 жыл бұрын

    These are old videos.

  • @TheSmurfboard

    @TheSmurfboard

    3 жыл бұрын

    ... and they're fake, assuming we live in a fake universe.

  • @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    @REDPUMPERNICKEL

    Жыл бұрын

    Ideas do not age. Nothing really does. Why? Because time is just a convenient short cut way to think about the relative movements of objects.

  • @colonialcliff

    @colonialcliff

    10 ай бұрын

    Universe is 13 billion years old.