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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Math More Fundamental Than Assembly Theory?
I think the thing that we need to explain is what, what abstractions are and what they are as physical things. So I think mathematics is a really good example. We do theoretical physics with math, but imagine doing physics of math and then thinking about math as a physical object. Math is super interesting because it's the most copyable kind of information. It retains its properties when you move it between physical media - so it seems to describe the universe really well. But it probably is because it's information that's very deep in our past. And it's just we invented a way of communicating it very effectively between us.
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