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?