A Sudden Savant: Futons to Fermions, Quantum Holography, and a New Calculus - Jason Padgett, #263

Today's episode features Jason Padgett, a physicist and artist
whose path to a mathematical conception of reality began with a
violent attack in his early 30s. We discuss this transformation
after brain injury. How with zero mathematical background he
found himself reinventing calculus. We discuss his attempts to
bring himself into line with peers who had a very different
formal training. Then we discuss his particular theoretical
projects in physics. In particular he has developed a theory of
informational constants of nature, which he calls holographic
quantum information theory in an effort to unify quantum
mechanics and Einsteinian relativity. To make sense of that we
unpack concepts like cubits, hidden information, and quantum
vector spin models. We close with a discussion of probabilistic
reality and the nature of material reality versus mathematical
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00:05:59 Ideas in different languages 00:10:58 Before the attack
00:14:25 The attack 00:27:00 My mind starts changing overnight
00:35:52 Reinventing calculus with no formal training 00:49:05
Savantism 00:57:56 Informational constant of nature 01:02:33
Cubits? 01:06:56 Hidden information between Planck times 01:14:03
Reconciling probabilistic reality 01:21:32 Everything is light,
QS vectors 01:26:15 Quantum Vector Spin models Einstein's time
dilation 01:37:37 Material reality v. math 01:59:58 Hawking
radiation 02:08:48 Translation through free education 02:17:36
Using AI to translate your math into words 02:25:51 Eternal
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