Science in Perspective
🌌 Science in Perspective
Science in Perspective examines scientific work by changing the level of description. Instead of isolating parts, it looks at how structure, information, and constraints give rise to behavior across systems.
Each episode starts from real research and asks what patterns remain when the details are stripped away. The focus is not on results alone, but on the organizing principles that recur across physics, biology, cognition, and social systems.
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Episodes
15 episodes
Stop Forcing Quantum to Think Classically: What Google Got Right, and Wrong, about Quantum Supremacy
In this episode I discuss Google’s new Willow chip and its claim of quantum supremacy — what the experiment actually did, why the benchmark still reflects classical thinking, and why forcing quantum systems to behave like deterministic machines...
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Episode 15
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41:50
When Math Starts Creating Nature
In this video I discuss how three seemingly unrelated studies—from quantum time crystals to galactic vortices to heart rhythms—reveal the same underlying pattern of emergence, where mathematics itself generates new structures through feedback a...
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Episode 14
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41:26
Cool the World, Wreck the System: The Illusion of Control
In this episode I discuss geoengineering, focusing on the UK’s proposed aerosol project to reflect sunlight and reduce global temperatures. I explain the greenhouse effect and why gases like CO₂ and methane trap heat, before turning to the deep...
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Episode 13
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30:33
Regulating the Complex: AI in Government
In this episode I discuss how governments are adopting AI, the tradeoff between predictability and creativity, and how debate-inspired meta structures could guide AI toward more reliable truth.
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Episode 12
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31:22
Fast Math Doesn’t Equal Deep Intelligence
In this episode I discuss how math’s usefulness often comes from our gamified world rather than nature’s complexity, and why real learning depends on memory and abstraction. True progress, I argue, comes from raising levels of abstraction and o...
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Episode 11
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25:33
The Two Faces of Resilience
In this episode I discuss two complementary forms of resilience: the delocalization that allows systems to spread out and resist noise, and the pattern formation that provides stability and meaning. Using random matrix theory as a lens, I show ...
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Episode 10
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30:28
Dark Electrons: Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
In this episode, I talk about the phenomenon of dark electrons in exotic materials, how they emerge from hidden states of matter, and why they may play a central role in superconductivity. I also explore the broader idea that much of nature ope...
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Episode 9
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23:24
Cantor, Gödel, Turing, AI: The Reachability of Truth
Suggested Readinghttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11568https://tinyurl.com/y2wdred5
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Episode 8
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36:43
Maybe Gravity Isn't Fundamental, but Emergent
Suggested Readinghttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.17575Become a Memberscience-in-perspective.com*My specific discussion of entropy as a mechanistic explanation for emergence is founded on my own theories. Similarly...
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Episode 7
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33:00
Flow and Form: Creating Supersolids with Light
In this episode I discuss the science behind a recent paper on the creation of supersolids - a new form of matter that has both fluidic and structural properties. Suggested Readinghttps://tinyurl.com/2e2ym4u8Become...
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Episode 6
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30:34
Scale-Free Truth: Keeping AI Correct, Regardless its Power
How can we keep AI truthful, even if it knows more than we do? In this episode I discuss how AI might be kept aligned to human truth and values, despite superseding us in scale and capability. I argue that logic is a scale-free framework that i...
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Episode 5
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45:45
Scripting the Unscripted: The Fallacy of Trying to Design Life
In this episode I discuss a recent project initiative that looks to design a genome from scratch, and argue that such research motivations rely on a deeply flawed premise.Suggested ReadingHe’s Gleaning the Design Rules of Life to Re...
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Episode 4
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50:00
Time travel, and the Unification of all Physics
In this episode I discuss recent research related to quantum time travel, and comment on what this might mean for the biggest outstanding problem in all physics: the unification of quantum mechanics with general relativity.Become a Me...
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Episode 3
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1:10:55
Complexity Answers Complexity: Merging Brains and Machines
In this episode I discuss recent research in merging the human brain with machines. This opens the door to reestablishing motor control in paralyzed individuals, and also raises the question as to how far this might go. Augmented memory? Increa...
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Episode 2
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26:04
Classical Supremacy: Quantum Computers Still Mostly Hype
In this episode I discuss the announcement made by Google in 2019 about achieving "quantum supremacy", only to be surpassed this year with a classical computer. The hype is real, but the computer? Less so. This episode gives a conceptual overvi...
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Episode 1
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