The Knowns & Unknowns | Live Lecture by Lawrence M. Krauss at CMiCT 2023

A message from Lawrence:

On June 4th, The Origins Project Foundation and AUK co-sponsored an event entitled Changing Minds in Changing Times. Locally co-ordinated and hosted by John Richards, the event included numerous lectures, by me, Sophie Scott, Blay Whitby, and Keith Porteous Wood as well as an award ceremony for Richard Dawkins followed by a dialogue between the two of us, and an auction for a painting of Christopher Hitchens. AUK is releasing videos of various parts of the event over the course of the next month, and The Origins Project Foundation will release videos of my lecture, and my dialogue with Richard our YouTube channel as well. Critical Mass paid subscribers will have access to both of these videos in advance, ad-free.

Attached here is a link to the video of the first live in person lecture I gave on my new book, The Known Unknowns. It was brief, given the constraints of time at the meeting, so it only covered a few topics, but it was fun to be able to discuss them in front of a live audience. I hope you enjoy it.

The Origins Podcast, a production of The Origins Project Foundation, features in-depth conversations with some of the most interesting people in the world about the issues that impact all of us in the 21st century. Host, theoretical physicist, lecturer, and author, Lawrence M. Krauss, will be joined by guests from a wide range of fields, including science, the arts, and journalism. The topics discussed on The Origins Podcast reflect the full range of the human experience - exploring science and culture in a way that seeks to entertain, educate, and inspire.

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[_indrid_cold_]

Every lecture by Lawrence Krauss is an absolute gift. I listen to the same lectures many times in a vain effort to better glimpse the range and dimensions of his understanding. I'd love to one day be able to come see him in person, perhaps even shake his hand in gratitude for shining light into areas of my earthly experience which would otherwise have remained unknown. Lets hope he tours Europe soon.

[TheKristofdv]

Just bought this book after seeing this wonderful talk by Prof. Lawrence Krauss. Thank you very much! :-)

[askagain]

They don't build 'em like Lawrence Krauss no more, we need to clone him ;)) beautiful evenrt speech sir, keep it up, looking forward for your future ventures.

[sandyago]

Rumsfeld was summarizing a theory known as 'The Johari Window, . It is a framework for understanding conscious and unconscious bias that can help increase self-awareness and understanding of others. It was created by psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955. The model is named by combining their first names.
It consists of four ' window panes'
1. Things we all know
2. Things we know and no one else knows
3. Things we know we don't know
4. Things no one knows.

[Frazer]

2 / 2

I received my first wireless remote clicker for my PowerPoint presentations as far back as 2002. Might I suggest providing one for your guest speakers? This would save them the trouble of repeatedly asking to advance to the next slide. After all, with the advances in AGI these days, such accommodations should be relatively easy to implement.

[amitm]

Dr. Krauss, you are an amazing thinker and an inspiration to the world. The wonder of science is that everything has not been answered yet. As Newton put it, he was just collecting some pebbles on the shore when an entire ocean of knowledge had yet to be explored.

[bmaalimarber]

Yes Lawrence Krauss! We should learn by formulating good questions not by learning prefabricated answers.
By the way I didn't understand why time is not universal ?!...however I am convinced that the main caracteristique of the concept of time is irreversible since I have lost my parents forever and never again, because they have been died

[seanmellows]

Great talk. We know very little and our intuition leads us in disparate directions. Luckily there are such people who enjoy banging their minds against the unknown. Thanks, Professor Kraus.

[antoinettejoubert]

One of my favourite intellectuals🇿🇦Thank you for enlightening us !

[Shadinsb]

Time is an illusion. Lunch time, doubly so.


Thank you, D.A.

[circassianlondoner]

I'm one of the few people that had the privilege of attending this magical wonderful event! All the lecturers were absolutely brilliant and to my pleasant surprise extremely humble. Dear Lawrence, I will forever be grateful to you for signing your book to my 10 year old son Sergei!

[romanabbas]

Wow! As someone who wants to become a Quantum Physicsist, this lecture was truly amazing! I can't wait to read the book! Thank you, Professor Krauss! What a lecture it was!

[giveadoggyabone]

So smart, an atheist, and so nice! Great guy all around, we need more like him!

[michaeldao]

Great content and extremely interesting, but from the perspective of someone who teaches presentation skills this is an absolute horror show

[scienceexplains]

*Consciousness* is a singular grammatically. The seeming unity of our consciousness may be us deceiving ourselves and the split brain is some evidence that we have at least two.

[rsr]

I hope the irony of TS Elliot's anti-Semitism isn't lost on Krauss, who is Jewish (culturally, not religiously, of course). To quote Elliot: "What is still more important [than cultural homogeneity] is unity of religious background, and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable."

Krauss is exactly the kind of 'free-thinking Jew' that Elliot despised.

[myname]

Consciousness: is the ability to conduct evolutionary (computation) experimentation and learning on oneself. By this definition it can be traced back over the evolutionary tape to its biological origin. (debate on this would take you into the evolutionary computations of human and animal brain).

[geoffreyah]

An ideological bases is also intuitive. This includes a scientific intuition used in physics. There the is idea that there might be something beyond writing and words is philosophically valid.

[aforementioned]

I have actually been thinking "But aren't we just a product of the Universe? We are fine tuned to it not the other way around right?" for many years. Thank you for the eloquent explanation!

[iorr]

I came here to hear about the universe inflation not to observe adds inflation, lost Krauss after the third add.