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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

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Is There a Physics Engine That Generates Consistent Reality?

"There's a physics engine that generates consistent reality, right? My sense is the same could be true for a universe," he says. "Maybe we descendants of apes are really only understand like 0.00001% of actual physics of reality." We barely have a purchase on making anything like discernible intellectual progress in any generation, writes Max Tegmark. 'We're just not that kind of ape, right? There's been no evolutionary pressure along those lines'

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