Tim Maudlin and Tim Palmer: Superdeterminism vs. Bell's Theorem

Tim Palmer, a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford, and philosopher Tim Maudlin discuss superdeterminism, Bell’s theorem, and the implications of chaos theory and free variables for physics. Their debate examines deterministic frameworks, quantum non‑locality, and why these ideas matter for scientific explanation.

- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:02:04 - Superdeterminism & Fractal Cosmology
- 00:05:06 - Tim Palmer's work
- 00:09:24 - Tim Maudlin's work
- 00:11:47 - Bell inequality assumptions
- 00:22:40 - Locality and Superdeterminism
- 00:28:33 - Disagreement summary
- 00:32:54 - Counterfactuals
- 00:59:38 - Chaos theory
- 01:26:32 - Free variables
- 01:36:30 - Invariant set theory
- 01:48:21 - Links and Part 2 teaser

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