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Leonard Susskind is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory and in general as one of the greatest physicists of our time both as a researcher and an educator.

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What kind of questions can science not currently answer and may never be able to answer?

Is there intelligence out there that's underlies the whole thing?

You can call them with a G word if you want.

I can say, are we a computer simulation with a purpose?

Is there an agent, an intelligent agent, that underlies or is responsible for the whole thing?

Does that intelligent agent satisfy the laws of physics?

Does it satisfy the laws of quantum mechanics?

And I don't see, it seems to me a real question.

The questions have to be answerable to be real.

Some philosophers would say that a question is not a question unless it's answerable.

This question doesn't seem to me answerable by any known method, but it seems to me real.


Speaker 0: What kind of questions can science not currently answer and may never be able to answer? Yeah. Is there intelligence out there that's underlies the whole thing? You can call them with a G word if you want. I can say, are we a computer simulation with a purpose?

Is there an agent, an intelligent agent, that underlies or is responsible for the whole thing? Does that intelligent agent satisfy the laws of physics? Does it satisfy the laws of quantum mechanics? Is it made of atoms and molecules? Yeah, there's a lot of questions.

And I don't see, it seems to me a real question. It's an answerable question. Well, I don't know if it's answerable. The questions have to be answerable to be real. Some philosophers would say that a question is not a question unless it's answerable.

This question doesn't seem to me answerable by any known method, but it seems to me real. Thank you. Thank you. You

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