Part 2 of 2: Quantum Physics and The End of Reality with Sabine Hossenfelder, Carlo Rovelli, and Eric Weinstein hosted by Brian Keating for the Institute for Art and Ideas (#245)

We imagine physics is objective. But quantum physics found the act
of human observation changes the outcome of experiment. Many
scientists assume this central role of the observer is limited to
just quantum physics. But is this an error? As Heisenberg puts it,
"what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our
method of questioning." In all our studies of reality and nature
then, the observer plays a role -- not just in quantum physics.
Should we recognize science can never access reality independent of
the observer? Should we re-define science not as uncovering
objective reality, but as uncovering the functions, limitations and
structures of the mind of the observer themselves? And if we cannot
remove the observer, might quantum physics help us to understand
the observer - as Roger Penrose suggests consciousness "reeks of
something quantum mechanical." Sabine Hossenfelder is a research
fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, author of
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray and regular
contributor to Forbes. She is known for her popular YouTube channel
Science Without The Gobbledygook Eric Weinstein is an American
podcast host, managing director of Thiel Capital, doctor of
mathematical physics and member of the "intellectual dark web".
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who works mainly
in the field of Quantum Gravity. Carlo's popular science book Seven
Briefs Lessons on Physics has been translated into 41 languages and
sold over one million copies. In 2019 he was named one of the 100
most influential thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine. Brian Keating
is a groundbreaking American cosmologist who works on observations
of the cosmic microwave background, leading the BICEP, POLARBEAR2
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