Why do physical laws have their specific form? Host Curt Jaimungal shows this question is a philosophical knot, because any "explanation" must itself stand on a law.

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Timestamps:
- 00:00 - Why Physical Laws?
- 05:04 - The Justification Problem
- 12:14 - The Limits of Explanation

Links mentioned:
- Wigner’s Classification: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Wigner+classification
- Noether’s Theorem: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Noether%27s+theorem
- This Is What Energy Actually Is [TOE]: https://youtu.be/hQk9GLZ0Fms
- Do Symmetries “Explain” Conservation Laws? [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.10909
- Max Tegmark [TOE]: https://youtu.be/-gekVfUAS7c
- Lee Smolin [TOE]: https://youtu.be/uOKOodQXjhc
- Amanda Gefter [TOE]: https://youtu.be/yABPvDJ6Zgs
- John Norton [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Tghl6aS5A3M
- Laws of Physics [Eddy Keming Chen]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03484
- What’s Actually Possible: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-unexamined-in-principle
- Eddy Chen & Barry Loewer [TOE]: https://youtu.be/xZnafO__IZ0
- The Package Deal Accounts of Laws and Properties [Paper]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-020-02765-2
- David Deutsch [TOE]: https://youtu.be/vKeWv-cdWkM
- Elan Barenholtz & Will Hahn [TOE]: https://youtu.be/Ca_RbPXraDE
- Münchhausen Trilemma [Wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
- Jennifer Nagel [TOE]: https://youtu.be/CWZVMZ9Tm7Q
- Law Without Law [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01826
- Schrodinger Equation: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Schr%C3%B6dinger+equation
- Born Rule: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Born+rule
- Enaction of Qbists [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.04230
- Constructor Theory [Paper]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.7439
- The Package Deal Account of Laws and Properties [Paper]: https://sites.rutgers.edu/barry-loewer/wp-content/uploads/sites/195/2020/05/Loewer-2020-The-Package-Deal-Account.pdf
- Jonathan Pageau [TOE]: https://youtu.be/X3co_AA6yec
- The Most Abused Theorem in Math (Godel’s Incompleteness) [TOE]: https://youtu.be/OH-ybecvuEo

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