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#204 – Cumrun Vafa: String Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Phase Transition Between Water and Vapor?
Can physics of a few centuries from now that does understand consciousness be much bigger than the physics of today, where the textbook grows? I don't know if it grows because of consciousness being part of it or we have different view of consciousness. It could very well be that what we call heuristically in daily life consciousness is similar to that. But there's no point you could say that this is conscious. There's no sharp transition. This happens. So at the end, it's very different looking like, you know, I know that water is liquid or vapors gas and say they're different. You can distinguish them. Actually, that's not true. We know from physics that
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