The podcast hosts discuss the concept of undiscovered beings in literature and religion, with a quote from Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", and how it plays into the exotic and mysterious nature of undiscovered creatures.
The speaker argues that we should remain open-minded about developing new tools and searching for intelligent life on earth. They discuss the potential difficulties in studying extraterrestrial life as a scientific phenomenon.
The speaker discusses his discomfort with the idea of humans arriving at absolute truth through facts, and acknowledges that the entirety of human experience, including feelings, is reality and contributes to our understanding of the world.
The ability to shift between abstract and concrete thinking, known as construal level, is crucial for problem-solving using self-distancing techniques, as explained by researcher Carl Veit. As sense-makers, humans use their limited knowledge to understand and make sense of situations.
Many-Worlds interpretation alternatives, such as hidden variables, dynamical collapse theories, etc., have more complexities and additional entities to account for the classical world we experience, unlike the simple and observer-free Many-Worlds interpretation.