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If people knew one thing about Steven Weinberg, it’d be a quote from one of his books: “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” In this video, I want to speculate about what he might have meant. Is the universe pointless?

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00:00 Intro
01:00 Intent and Purpose
02:33 Function and Teleology
06:15 Other Points
10:40 Can a Theory Explain Itself?
14:27 Summary
15:02 Learn Science With Brilliant

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