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Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is the Universe a Computational Device?
There's a sense in which the universe processes information, clearly. Information processing happens in the universe, but it's not what the universe is. As the universe expands and space gets bigger, are there more degrees of freedom? If it's an infinite number, it doesn't really matter. Infinity times two is still infinity. We actually don't know how many there are, but there's a very good argument that says it's a finite number. So where did they come into existence? And it's not that they're not there to start with - we see them all around us. But then there's this step from the fundamentals of particle physics to information processing,. ywhich a lot of
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