The Nature of Nurture

The Nature of Reality. Interview with physicist Radhika Dirks

Episode Summary

Host Leslie chats with her friend, physicist Radhika Dirks, about the nature of reality and the relationship between our minds and the world around us. They talk about a few different, related concepts - like the placebo effect, the observer effect, and the nature of human subjectivity and the power of perception.

Episode Notes

Connect with Contributors:

Dr. Leslie Car: lesliecarr.com

Radhika Dirks: @radhikadirks on Instagram and https://xlabs.ai/

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

• The Fabric of the Cosmos with physicist Briane Greene on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/the-fabric-of-the-cosmos/
• Donald Hoffman TED talk Do we see reality as it is?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY
• Hyperspace by Michio Kaku (Leslie’s favorite book about theoretical physics and the magical nature of reality): https://www.amazon.com/Hyperspace-Scientific-Parallel-Universes-Dimension/dp/0385477058
• Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Philosophy-Revolution-Modern-Science/dp/0061209198
• Science, Order, and Creativity: A Dramatic New Look at the Creative Roots of Science and Life by David Bohm https://www.amazon.com/Science-Order-Creativity-Dramatic-Creative/dp/0553344498
• The article about the placebo effect and knee surgery: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020712075415.htm
• An explanation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jan/29/how-words-influence-thought
• An explanation of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/