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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Way to Merge With the Cellular Automaton?

There may be a way to map the program to your conscious experience. I mean, you could argue sort of mathematically that you can never truly become immersed, but maybe you can. Why can't you just like, well, that's a good question. Let's imagine return. What's that? Well, but then can you return back? Well, yeah, right. In this thing we call the multi way graph of all of the sort of branching histories, there's this idea of a kind of space where instead of moving around in physical space, you're moving from one possible history to another possible history. That's how quantum mechanics plays out. And so us as these poor observers

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