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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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

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.

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