If Your Brain Was Strong, Would Counting a Future State of the Universe in Your Head Temporarily Create a New Universe?

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Brandon Kruger asks, if your brain was strong enough to envision future events down to the most fundamental scale of physics, would calculating a future state of the universe in your head temporarily create a new universe? The question is not an easily dismissed question upon further reflection. So i can't promise you that i would stick by that position, but in some sense, i think the answer to your question is yes. But then the there's a separate thing,. which is the attitude one should have toward such questions, which is your cheating a little bit.

Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.

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