Quantum Mechanics: How Does a Branching Brain Perceive a Branched Universe?

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Aims to explain how an observer makes sense of what's going on in the quantum universe. In other words, your brain is branching, just like the universe is branching. The view of the universe knitting together these branches would rapidly become incredibly inconsistent. But this causal and variance property implies that eventually these branches will merge. Even though it might take century for these branches from different parts of the universe to merge, it's ok to think of them as merging right now. Tat's all adi vie migt be.

It’s not easy, figuring out the fundamental laws of physics. It’s even harder when your chosen methodology is to essentially start from scratch, positing a simple underlying system and a simple set of rules for it, and hope that everything we know about the world somehow pops out. That’s the project being undertaken by Stephen Wolfram and his collaborators, who are working with a kind of discrete system called “hypergraphs.” We talk about what the basic ideas are, why one would choose this particular angle of attack on fundamental physics, and how ideas like quantum mechanics and general relativity might emerge from this simple framework.

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Stephen Wolfram received his Ph.D. in physics from Caltech. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language. Among his awards are a MacArthur Fellowship. Among his books is A New Kind of Science. He recently launched the Wolfram Physics Project.

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