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Joscha Bach on Intelligence, Existence, Time, and Consciousness

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

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Is There a Predictive Function That Explains Everything?

In some sense, the meaning of information is its relationship to change in other information. We will always be able to construct a function that behaves as if there was no noise and explains everything. But it doesn't mean that this function is necessarily predictive. It's conceivable that we would find such a function for our universe. If the universe is very complicated, we can still find a very complicated function. The quest of physics is to find the shortest function.

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