Platonic Physics: In Dialogue with Wolfgang Smith

Dr. Smith's new book PHYSICS: A Science in Quest of an Ontology: https://philos-sophia.lnk.to/Physics Timestamps: 1:44 14 year old Wolfgang reading Whitehead 3:20 Why mathematics? 5:10 What did ancient philosophers like Plato understand about the cosmos that modern Cartesian science has forgotten? 9:15 Wholeness in physics and mathematics 16:36 Whitehead's difference from Russell as regards the failure of the 'Principia Mathematica' project 19:18 The influence of Whitehead's protest against bifurcation 28:00 The confusions of contemporary physics begin with the retinal image theory of perception 40:50 The hard problem of consciousness 42:30 Quantum physics and Plato's tripartite ontology 1:08:40 Comparison to Whitehead's process ontology 1:13:41 Wolfgang does not think biological evolution is possible (more complex organisms cannot come from simpler organisms) 1:16:44 John Berger's question for Wolfgang about the tripartite ontology 1:21:32 Whitehead as a Platonist; the primordial nature of God as vertical causality 1:24:49 Is evolutionary history, including the history of humanity, simply a meaningless illusion?