Matt O'Dowd is the host of PBS Space Time and a Professor of Physics at the City University of New York. His upcoming film on physics and consciousness is called Inventing Reality. You can find out more here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/inventing-reality

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:17 What is PBS Spacetime?
00:05:38 Inventing reality
00:12:52 The scientific perspective of understanding reality
00:15:44 Metaphysics needs to be a part of "theory"
00:23:23 Material is "dual" to Consciousness
00:25:46 Ought from an "is"
00:32:12 Science is incomplete
00:55:21 The hard problem of consciousness
01:04:49 You have free will
01:37:15 Inconsistency in the universe
02:00:53 Terrence Deacon and "absence" / "nothingness"
02:06:52 Outro