Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, Ai, and God in a technically rigorous manner. If you'd like to support this endeavor, then please visit the Substack https://curtjaimungal.substack.com as you get ad-free extras. Thank you for your charitable and kindhearted support. My name's Curt Jaimungal, a Torontonian with a degree in mathematical physics from the University of Toronto and I analyze various Theories of Everything from this analytic perspective, though more and more opening up to alternative approaches. The separating factor of TOE from other podcasts is its focus on depth even at the risk of limiting the audience due to how much detail we delve into subjects. Paralleling the intensity found in academic discourse, we're increasingly embracing a spectrum of unconventional ideas to conduct research during this podcast, rather than merely conveying existing information.

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Most frequent guests

Michael Levin 9 episodes
Noam Chomsky 9 episodes
Jacob Barandes 6 episodes
Stephen Wolfram 5 episodes
Donald Hoffman 5 episodes
Luis Elizondo 5 episodes
Tim Maudlin 5 episodes
Neil Turok 5 episodes
Joscha Bach 4 episodes
Scott Aaronson 4 episodes

Every guest on Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

215 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Michael Levin
Michael Levin and Anil Seth: Your Brain Is Not a Computer · 9 episodes

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Janna Levin
Janna Levin: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Klein Bottle · May 2026

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Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson: God, Jung, and the Science of Perception · 2 episodes

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Sara Walker
Sara Walker: Why Earth Holds the Key to Finding Alien Life · Mar 2024

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Roman Yampolskiy
Roman Yampolskiy: We're Simulated. AI Is Conscious. And We Can't Win. · Jun 2026

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Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll: Why the Crisis in Fundamental Physics Is Deepening · Aug 2024

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Lee Cronin
Lee Cronin: A Top Chemist Reacts to Terrence Howard on Joe Rogan · May 2024

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Brian Greene
Brian Greene: String Theory, Faster Than Light, and Death · Jan 2023

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Roy Baumeister
Roy Baumeister: Why Willpower Is a Real and Depletable Resource · Apr 2024

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Bryan Johnson
Bryan Johnson: The Longevity Protocol That Reverses Biological Age · May 2024

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Nick Lane
Nick Lane: How Life Emerged from Chemistry on the Ocean Floor · Sep 2022

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Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen: The Graduate Student Crisis Destroying Academia · Feb 2025

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Diana Walsh Pasulka
Diana Pasulka: Religion, Atheism, Heidegger, and the Dark Night · May 2022

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Joscha Bach
Joscha Bach and Karl Friston: What Happens When the Self Dissolves? · 4 episodes

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Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram: Why the Universe Is Pure Computation · 5 episodes

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Manolis Kellis
Manolis Kellis: Hidden Patterns Linking DNA, Evolution, and Mind · Nov 2024

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Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark: Why AI Belongs Inside Physics, Not Computer Science · Sep 2025

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Edward Frenkel
Edward Frenkel: The Langlands Proof That Changed Mathematics Forever · 3 episodes

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John Vervaeke
John Vervaeke: Christianity, the Sacred, and Infinite Relations · 2 episodes

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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky: Buddhism, ChatGPT, and the Hard Problem of Mind · 9 episodes

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Richard Haier
Richard Haier: What Brain Scans Reveal About Human Intelligence · Oct 2020

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Richard Wolff
Richard Wolff: Why Capitalism Is Failing and What Comes Next · Aug 2020

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Donald Hoffman
Donald Hoffman vs. Philip Goff: Conscious Agents or Panpsychism? · 5 episodes

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Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson: The Economic Case That Aliens Monitor Earth · Mar 2025

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Garry Nolan
Garry Nolan: What Stanford Found About UFOs and Consciousness · Apr 2022

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Philip Goff

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Brian Keating
Brian Keating and Lee Cronin: Do We Need New Laws for Life? · 2 episodes

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Peter Woit
Peter Woit and Joseph Conlon: Is String Theory Still Worth It? · 3 episodes

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Cumrun Vafa
Cumrun Vafa: Dark Dimensions That Unify Dark Matter and Dark Energy · Jul 2024

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Daniel Schmachtenberger
Daniel Schmachtenberger: Why AI May Accelerate Civilizational Collapse · May 2023

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Robert Breedlove
Robert Breedlove and Curt Jaimungal: Paradoxes, Bitcoin, and Von Neumann · Nov 2022

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Eric Weinstein
Eric Weinstein: The Theory He Kept Secret for Four Decades (Geometric Unity) · 3 episodes

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Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb: Are UAPs Connected to Consciousness and Time Travel? · 2 episodes

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Scott Aaronson
Scott Aaronson and Jacob Barandes: Quantum Mechanics Without Waves · 4 episodes

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Ben Goertzel
Ben Goertzel: Why AGI Could Arrive Within Five Years · Apr 2023

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Karl Friston
Karl Friston: How One Equation Explains Brains, Life, and Reality · 4 episodes

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Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose and Ivette Fuentes: A Bold New Test of Gravity · 3 episodes

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Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin: Why Time Is Real and Quantum Mechanics Needs Rewriting · Feb 2024

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Jesse Michels
Jesse Michels and Curt Jaimungal: Physics, UFOs, and Parapsychology · 2 episodes

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David Robson
David Robson: Why Smart People Often Make the Worst Decisions · Feb 2023

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