I personally subscribe to The Economist. SUMMER SALE to Aug 17, 2026: 50% off the annual subscription! No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOEPhysicist Nir Lahav proposes a relativistic theory of consciousness: subjective experience as a genuine physical property manifested only from within a cognitive system's own internal simulation. No prior background in physics or philosophy required.SUPPORT:- Support me on Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe- Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE- Support me on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4JOIN MY SUBSTACK (Personal Writings): https://curtjaimungal.substack.comLISTEN ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4eLINKS MENTIONED:- Nir's Website: https://www.lahavnir.com/about-me- Nir's Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LFMD5RkAAAAJ- Nir's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nir.Lahav- Nir's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thewonderofscience9863/videos- A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness [Paper]: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.704270/full- Church-Turing Thesis: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/- What Is It Like to Be a Bat? [Paper]: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf- On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies [TOE]: https://users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rtaylor/teaching/specrel.pdf- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/037575766X?tag=toe08-20- Discourse on Metaphysics [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/1474457789?tag=toe08-20- The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity [Paper]: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/cosmology_2025/pdf/Einstein_Extension_Relativity_1916.pdf- Some Functional Effects of Sectioning the Cerebral Commissures in Man [Paper]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.48.10.1765- Reasoning or Reciting? [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02477- The Conscious Mind [Book]: https://amazon.com/dp/0195117891?tag=toe08-20- Consciousness Iceberg [TOE]: https://youtu.be/65yjqIDghEk- Michael Levin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s- Karl Friston [TOE]: https://youtu.be/2v7LBABwZKA- Daniel Dennett [TOE]: https://youtu.be/bH553zzjQlI- Bernardo Kastrup [TOE]: https://youtu.be/lAB21FAXCDE- Joscha Bach [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3MNBxfrmfmI- Matt Segall [TOE]: https://youtu.be/DeTm4fSXpbM- Leo Gura [TOE]: https://youtu.be/YspFR9JAq3w- What Is Energy, Actually? [TOE]: https://youtu.be/hQk9GLZ0Fms- Plato's Cave [TOE]: https://youtu.be/PurNlwnxwfY- Iain McGilchrist [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Q9sBKCd2HD0- Andres Emilsson: https://youtu.be/BBP8WZpYp0Y- Ruth Kastner [TOE]: https://youtu.be/-BsHh3_vCMQ- Urs Schreiber [TOE]: https://youtu.be/1KUhLHlgG2Q- Ted Jacobson [TOE]: https://youtu.be/3mhctWlXyV8- Stephen Wolfram [TOE]: https://youtu.be/0YRlQQw0d-4- Emily Adlam and Jacob Barandes [TOE]: https://youtu.be/rw1ewLJUgOg- David Chalmers [TOE]: https://youtu.be/RH5qjdHhtBk- Donald Hoffman and Philip Goff [TOE]: https://youtu.be/MmaIBxkqcT4- Donald Hoffman [TOE]: https://youtu.be/CmieNQH7Q4w- Michael Levin and Anil Seth [TOE]: https://youtu.be/_kuwwmFnxGY- Elan Barenholtz [TOE]: https://youtu.be/A36OumnSrWY- Geoffrey Hinton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/b_DUft-BdIETheories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal features long-form, technically detailed interviews with leading researchers in physics, mathematics, consciousness, and philosophy, exploring topics at the level of active research. For academics, graduate students, and anyone seeking depth beyond popular science.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices