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AMA | June 2022
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
If Your Brain Was Strong, Would Counting a Future State of the Universe in Your Head Temporarily Create a New Universe?
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.
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