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#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Consciousness Is Not That Special

In a sense, what consciousness is doing is insisting that the universe is kind of sequentialized. It's not allowing the possibility that there are these multiple threads of time and they're all flowing differently. If we existed at a scale close to the elementary length, for example, then our perception of the universe will be absurdly different. But who cares? I mean, well, consciousness is not that special.

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