The physics of democracy has direct analogues in physics, he says. A system that is eternal in time and unbounded in configuration space will repeat itself over and over again if there's only a finite number of things it can do. "Whatever is most interesting and enlightening for the book is what's going to count for me"
Welcome to the November 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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