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#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Limitation to the Human Brain?
Just as a monkey can't understand quantum theory or even Newtonian physics, there's no particular reason why the human brain should have evolved to be well matched to understanding a deepest aspect of reality. And I suspect that there may be aspects that we are not even aware of and couldn't really fully comprehend. But on the other hand, if a machine churns away a 10-dimensional geometry, figuring out all the possible origamis and wound up in extra dimensions, you would know that there was some truth in the theory. So there's every reason to expect that these machines could help us to solve these problems.
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