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YouTube link https://youtu.be/883R3JlZHXETim Palmer is a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics at Oxford. Tim Maudlin is a Professor of Philosophy at New York University, specializing in the philosophy of physics. We discuss superdeterminism, chaos theory, and free variables.- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!)- Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE- PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything- TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerchLINKS MENTIONED:- Tim Maudlin's podcast on TOE: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss- Primacy of Doubt (Tim Palmer's book): https://amzn.to/3Oo55k7- Metaphysics Within Physics (Tim Maudlin's book): https://amzn.to/3pXHNcn- Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity (Tim Maudlin's book): https://amzn.to/44QoS2F- Go Fund Me for "The John Bell Institute" initiative: https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-permanent-home-for-the-john-bell-institute- Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics (John Bell's book): https://amzn.to/43RyQ2tTIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 Introduction00:02:04 Explaining Superdeterminism & Fractal Cosmology00:05:06 What is Tim Palmer working on00:09:24 What is Tim Maudlin working on00:11:47 Assumptions of Bell's inequality / theorem00:22:40 Locality and Superdeterminism00:28:33 Summary of disagreement + why do we care what Bell said?00:32:54 Counterfactuals & Counterfactual definiteness00:59:38 Chaos theory, attractors, and fractals01:26:32 Free variables and ensembles01:36:30 Invariant set theory01:48:21 Relevant links and teaser for Part 2