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Ep 41: David Chalmers on the Nature of Reality

Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

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The It From Bit Hypothesis

The it from bit hypothesis is an idea that the universe could be a fundamentally digital level of reality. John Wheeler, who put forward the theory in the late 1980s, says there's some element of mind creeping into physics. And here we have no cellular autometa like our john conway's game of life,. every cell is just is a two dimensional grid of souls, infinite in both ie s with a with every cell can be on or off. There are very simple rules for house cells, up date their states for this gives you this digital physics of life - as complex as physical universe.

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