How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
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How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
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Re: How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
#2Perhaps "understanding 'intelligence' when you're stuck inside it" is even harder and yet a lot of artificial intelligence research seems very linear and not interested in unknown unknowns.
If we are following the "anthropic principle" the two questions might not be entirely unrelated.
Re: How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
#3> This relational framework captured Smolin’s imagination, as did Leibniz’s enigmatic text The Monadology, in which Leibniz suggests that the world’s fundamental ingredient is the “monad,”
If this is not evidence that Haskell is the language of the Gods, I don't know what is...
Re: How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
#4Quanta Magazine has been producing a lot of stories that have been appearing on HN lately.
An interesting aside it that Quanta was started by James Simon’s Foundation. James Simons is an interesting person. He doesn’t get the publicity of a Gates, Buffett, or Bezos.
Re: How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
#5All matter is information, all information is functional, and perception is therefore the lazy evaluation of the universe.
Re: How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
#6Smolin dropped out of highschool, played in a rock band, thought himself mathematics and suddenly he is in Harvard... good jump Smolin. Flawless victory!
Re: How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
#7Quanta Magazine has been producing a lot of stories that have been appearing on HN lately. An interesting aside it that Quanta was started by James Simon’s Foundation. James Simons is an interesting person. He doesn’t get the publicity of a Gates, Buffett, or Bezos. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
The Numberphile YT channel managed to get a rare interview with Mr. Simons.
Re: How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
#8Quanta Magazine has been producing a lot of stories that have been appearing on HN lately. An interesting aside it that Quanta was started by James Simon’s Foundation. James Simons is an interesting person. He doesn’t get the publicity of a Gates, Buffett, or Bezos. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
The Numberphile YT channel managed to get a rare interview with Mr. Simons. https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0
thanks for link!
Re: How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
#9All matter is information, all information is functional, and perception is therefore the lazy evaluation of the universe.
Does the universe require perception in order for there to be existence?
If so, does the perception require consciousness?
Is consciousness constrained to the universe, or orthogonal to it?
Re: How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
#10Quanta Magazine has been producing a lot of stories that have been appearing on HN lately. An interesting aside it that Quanta was started by James Simon’s Foundation. James Simons is an interesting person. He doesn’t get the publicity of a Gates, Buffett, or Bezos. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
The Numberphile YT channel managed to get a rare interview with Mr. Simons. https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0
That’s the same link I posted.