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Meaning Lives In Physical Structure
- Meanings of words cannot be encoded solely as words because that creates an infinite regress.
- Inexplicit knowledge is physically instantiated in changing configurations of the brain rather than as verbal definitions.
Pizza Conversation That Changed Minds
- David Deutsch recounts asking Bryce DeWitt about the Everett interpretation over pizza.
- DeWitt answered clearly and Deutsch left convinced the world is like Everett described.
Consciousness Path Led To Quantum Computers
- Deutsch describes how his search into consciousness spawned the idea of quantum computation.
- Early thinking about consciousness led him to propose machines we now call quantum computers.