Curt Jaimungal
Filmmaker; Host of Theories of Everything
About
Curt Jaimungal is a Toronto filmmaker and the host of Theories of Everything, a podcast launched in 2020 that he describes as exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, AI and God in a technically rigorous manner. He describes himself as "a Torontonian with a degree in mathematical physics from the University of Toronto" and says he analyses candidate theories of everything from that analytic perspective, while increasingly opening up to alternative approaches. Before the show he directed Better Left Unsaid, a crowdfunded documentary examining the differences between the moderate and the extreme left. He says the separating factor of the show is "its focus on depth even at the risk of limiting the audience due to how much detail we delve into subjects", and that it increasingly conducts original research on air rather than merely conveying existing information. He publishes a written companion to the show on Substack, where paid subscribers get early access and original essays.
Key Contributions
- Created and hosts Theories of Everything, a show he has run since 2020, on theoretical physics, consciousness, AI and God
- Directed Better Left Unsaid, a crowdfunded documentary on the differences between the moderate and the extreme left
- Has published more than 360 weekly episodes of the show, which is carried on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify
- In this collection his conversations carry Michael Levin, Iain McGilchrist with John Vervaeke, Joscha Bach with Ben Goertzel, and Matt Segall on Whitehead
- Runs the show's written companion on Substack, publishing original essays alongside the video episodes
5 conversations they hosted
Connections
Iain McGilchrist
In conversationPsychiatrist, Neuroscientist & Author
A second sitting rather than a first: Jaimungal had already given McGilchrist an episode on The Master and His Emissary, and brought him back for The Matter with Things alongside John Vervaeke. Convening two people who work the same seam — attention as the thing that makes a world — is a different editorial act from booking a guest, and this episode is the clearest instance of it on his channel.
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Joscha Bach
In conversationAI Researcher & Cognitive Scientist
Jaimungal put Bach opposite Ben Goertzel for a long exchange on conscious AI, LLMs and AGI — two people who both think machine minds are coming and disagree about nearly everything downstream of that. Booking them against each other rather than separately is the editorial judgment worth recording here; the disagreement is the content.
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John Vervaeke
In conversationCognitive Scientist & Philosopher
Jaimungal introduces Vervaeke as one of the few scholars giving the meaning crisis a serious cognitive-science treatment, and notes in passing that Toronto, where Vervaeke teaches, is his own former home. The episode pairs him with McGilchrist on God, being and meaning — a three-way conversation rather than an interview, which is the format this channel is actually for.
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Michael Levin
In conversationBiologist & Morphogenesis Researcher
Levin opens by reading out the emails he gets: people who have understood his papers, concluded they are a collective of cogs and gears, and want to know what to do now. His answer — the hardware does not define you; you are still an integrated being with a responsibility to act — is the ethical half of his science, and it rarely gets asked for. Jaimungal's show is where he says it.
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