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Uploaded by on Oct 26, 2009

Roundtable discussion with Dominic Balestra, Loren Graham, Edward Nelson, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and Max Tegmark.

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  • sigh...

    Why does someone always have to claim that they have something that PROVES God, or in this case a "God Singularity".

    If it does, then fine - publish your findings, let it go to peer review, and then the whole world can agree.

    But that won't happen, will it.

    We all know this.

    We know that, yet again, claims of proof will turn out to be anything but.

    Please, spare those who are not of your belief system from your belief system based pronouncements without empirical evidence.

  • i think the whole discussions become meaningless when you equate maths with religion!

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  • @tatsumakisempyukaku I suffered the same misfortune. Sorry, couldn't find it either...

  • Amazing video in my opinion. How wonderful to have such profound ideas and minds at work together. This video seems like a tribute to thousands of years of great thought.

  • @eltzar72 God is Infinite, that is a given :)

  • Their meetings are far too short. They should atleast have 3 hours of discussion. 1/10 was allready used as an introduction, which goes to show from start, that there is too little time.

  • @eltzar72

    I think the reason this question exists is that no one can answer that. We have such a small vocabulary of reality, who knows if that can be proved or not ... maybe it first needs to be defined?

  • What ppl don't realize is that math, as a language, has limits on what it can intelligibly describe. What language can describe how redness appears to us to a blind person? For the blind, language is unable to bridge certain chasms. We see, but we too have chasms unbridgeable.

  • Hey, this video is incomplete, where can I find the rest of it????????

  • Great round table discussion. Just awesome. People with varying views coming together to talk civilly about important matters

  • @crywolf30 that is math at the basic level (up until 2nd year of college in the United States). People are not told (presumably because it would be impracticle) that those are axioms and that all our results from elementary math holds only if those axioms hold. You referred to the commutativity of addition, there are situations where commutativity does not hold (i.e. any non-abelian group). The countable numbers happens to be in the situation where the axiom holds. So, your argument is falacious

  • Until I see a formal mathematical proof, God is nothing more than a conjecture.

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