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Ep 41: David Chalmers on the Nature of Reality

Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

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Is Reality a Mathematical Structure?

Solzhenitsyn: Is reality a mathematical structure? I very much like the idea that you can kind of articulate the structure of reality in mathematical terms. If we are in a computer simulation, then all that mathematical structure which physics was attributing to physical reality is also present in a simulated reality. And i think what physics ultimately tells us about reality is its temathematical structure and the way things in the way things evolve and interact. So this is what i think of as kind of a structure picture of reality. That's really well suited to vindicate virtual reality as reality.

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