TOKCAST

2/2/2020

ToKCast is an occasional video series and podcast largely about the work of David Deutsch. You can download all episodes here directly: https://brettroberthall.podbean.com or subscribe on Apple Podcasts by searching for ToKCast. The video versions of my episodes are on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsE51P_yPQCRzJItkoRzu9HOGjYeFkfSB

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Richard B.

2/25/2020 06:06:09 pm

Mr. Hall,
After stumbling onto your review of The Beginning Of Infinity, watching every episode, and telling my friends about your series... I finally thought to myself, "perhaps this guy has a website." So that's how I got here! I'm definitely not social media savvy, but I'm really happy to have made it this far!
I'm a 33 year old, USN disabled veteran and have spent most of my adult life reading physics textbooks. Before having brain surgery to remove a malignant tumor 4 years ago, I thought I should know something more about computational universality, and perhaps how it intersects with what we know in neurology. I found David Deutsch from a google search, read his paper on universality in quantum computation and knew I had to get both of his books and find as much of his work as I could.
As a guy with a good physics background, the most intriguing aspect for me, was the philosophical weight of his ideas. I always felt a certain way, and this way conflicted with what little I knew of the western cannon of philosophy... but now I know that this is mostly the philosophy of Karl Popper and I'm not entirely alone!
I am currently reading C&R and The Open Society, trying to catch up on Poppers work and I find your videos tremendously valuable. I really appreciate having someone like yourself, hitting the popperian perspective from many angles to unpack Davids books (which I'm comfortable with because I know some physics) in a way that really illuminates the philosophical conflicts of what I 'learned' in my 100 level freshman philosophy class I took in college!
Thanks to you and David Deutsch- I no longer need to look at philosophy as useless, meaningless, crap! Please continue to provide access to Poppers philosophy, as applied to the actual multiverse, and not just letting it rest on Platonic forms & ideas!

Brett link

6/20/2020 01:24:09 pm

Hello Richard.Do feel free to connect with me on Twitter @ToKTeacher also. Your story is fascinating: I hope you're doing well. If you do not know already, and appreciate the philosophy of physics details - take a look at some of the supplementary audio podcasts (especially for the present series on "The Multiverse). In particular this one: https://brettroberthall.podbean.com/e/ep-22-the-logic-of-experimental-tests/ There are various other audio only podcasts of mine here too: https://brettroberthall.podbean.com - you can find TOKCAST on itunes/apple as well as just about any other audio provider (just google "ToKCast"). The next one should be out soon - on physics too!

Oh, and on Plato vs Popper, see here: https://brettroberthall.podbean.com/e/ep-19-mr-poppers-problems/ (one of my personal favourites in large part because it's extra self indulgent and me tackling a particularly esoteric bit of philosophy). Oh: and the original paper by Popper I'm referring to in that episode is here: http://www.bretthall.org/the-nature-of-philosophical-problems.html and with commentary in addition to the audio stuff http://www.bretthall.org/the-nature-of-philosophical-problems-with-commentary.html

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