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Curt Jaimungal
Personal blog · curtjaimungal.substack.comsciencephilosophymath
Curt Jaimungal's personal blog at curtjaimungal.substack.com covers science, philosophy and math. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Curt Jaimungal's Substack, a physics, consciousness and theories-of-everything site with podcast interviews and essays, such as an interview with Peter Godfrey-Smith and a post on what energy is.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, AI, and God, rigorously and playfully. Members get every episode days early.
What Hacker News says?
You might find the recent Theories of Everything podcast interview [0] with Peter Godfrey-Smith interesting. Godfrey-Smith is the author of "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness," which is a great read to delve further. Two other interesting aspects of cephalopods: * Make many more changes to RNA than other invertebrates [2] * Have only one type of light sensing cell in eyes, so m…
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on “Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation”Submitted What Is a Topological Manifold? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPersonally, I love this theory. The thought of natural assembly and selection at the level of Black Holes is alluring. Not sure what The Black Mirror Hypothesis ( https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/when-you-fall-into-a-bl... ) would have to say about this, though.
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on “The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe”Submitted Entropy is geometry. And geometry is entropy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou might find the recent Theories of Everything podcast interview [0] with Peter Godfrey-Smith interesting. 0. https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/peter-godfrey-smith-thi...
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on “Larger Pacific striped octopus”Submitted How Witten Used Quantum Field Theory to Understand Knots as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNoeter theorem and energy get complicated in General Relativity, because there is no global time translation symmetry https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/what-is-energy-actually Ignoring that, saying "energy must exist because of Noether and time-translation" doesn't really tell what energy actually is, not a very satisfactory response
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on “So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)”Here's a starter pack of resources: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-holographic-unive... https://www.essentiafoundation.org/ https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/ Be advised this is not something that can be understood through intellectualization. At some point you have to put down the books and seek out the experience.
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on “Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings”
