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75: Existential Physics with Sabine Hossenfelder (Author Interview)

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Is the Universe Able to Think?

The universe is just too big to be able to think. If you look at the distribution of galaxies from a really far distance in one of the galaxy surveys that have been made, then you'll find that the galaxies are distributed in filaments with clusters. It kind of superficially looks like the connectome of the human brain where you have neurons connected by axons and so on. So that brings up the question like if we have this structure in the human brain and it seems to be kind of similar to the universe, then maybe the universe can also think.

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