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#82 - Dr. JOSCHA BACH - Digital Physics, DL and Consciousness [UNPLUGGED]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Is the Universe Really Infinite?

I'm not limiting what the universe is capable of based on human, you know, mental and linguistic limitations or even mathematical limitations. Like I'm asking you if it's possible for this universe that we're in to ontically be right now actually infinite in spatial extent. The thing is that you try to make a reference to something that you cannot observe, that you cannot conceive of other than making a model and some kind of language. To have that model make sense, the language needs to work. Otherwise you are just maybe in some kind of delusional thing. And we can construct delusional things. We can construct languages that have bugs that we cannot see. But if a user language has bugs in

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