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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

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Using the State Vector of the Universe to Predict the World

Just because we live in a dream world doesn't mean mathematics can't give us a consistent glimpse of physical, of objective reality. We can basically distinguish useful encodings from useless encodings. And when we apply our truth seeking to the world, we know we usually cannot find out whether a certain thing is true. The separation of the world into objects that are somehow discrete and interacting with each other is not the true reality.

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