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TIMESTAMPS BY: Irina Li
0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:11 What determines productivity for Rebecca?
0:03:13 Writing tools
0:04:11 What is a good ratio of reading the work of others to writing your own work?
0:05:16 Working environment
0:06:51 What does Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem mean? The first incompleteness theorem
0:11:16 The second incompleteness theorem
0:12:50 What does it mean for something to be true and not proved?
0:14:14 Bertrand Russell’s paradox
0:15:57 Is there utilitarian value when it comes to mathematics?
0:18:45 Consequences of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems
0:19:07 Argument published by John Lucas
0:20:08 Meeting Gödel at Princeton
0:22:40 Is the mind akin to a computer?
0:23:09 What are the ways in which Rebecca defers from Pinker ideologically?
0:24:48 Felder Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems and its relation to physics
0:26:13 Does mind come from matter?
0:26:32 Why doesn’t Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem apply to matter but what it engenders applies to?
0:29:00 Gödel and Tarski’s undefinability theorem
0:29:53 How Gödel’s incompleteness theorems rule out the possibility of a theory of everything in physics
0:31:25 How Freeman Dyson drew a conclusion about inexhaustible physical propositions that can’t be proved true
0:33:54 Tarski’s undefinability theorem
0:36:54 The semantic notion of truth that can’t be defined
0:38:32 The Deflationary Theory of Truth
0:41:02 Postmodernists and the Deflationary Theory of Truth
0:45:15 Habermas’ critique of postmodernist
0:46:50 Postmodernists, power, and progress
0:50:07 Dialogue and a shared notion of truth. How the dialogue has changed
0:52:07 Do we all want the same things?
0:54:17 What is rationality and progress?
0:56:58 Does taking truth seriously lead to nihilism?
1:01:36 Is Rebecca willing to doubt the updating mechanism?
1:03:15 Jordan Peterson and William Craig
1:06:45 Suffering as the meaning of life
1:07:47 Experience of transcendence
1:08:30 Suffering as a negative meaning of life
1:10:30 How could genocide happen in German culture?
1:12:11 The dangers of transcendence experience
1:15:24 Does morality come from something objective or fact-based?
1:17:39 Utilitarianism and sacrifice of the innocent
1:18:17 How does one make an objective case for morality?
1:24:43 Is it possible to think of oneself outside the very mechanisms of thinking?
1:28:53 Why we should pursue our lives
1:30:36 Is progress incompatible with multiculturalism?
1:31:50 Does the West have the most progressive cultures?
1:35:38 Where can audience find more about Rebecca?
1:40:20 Women in the STEM fields
1:42:44 Math and science have something that the arts and philosophy doesn’t have
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