Reason Is Fun

#2 - Physics of Inexplicit Ideas

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May 23, 2023
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INSIGHT

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.
ANECDOTE

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.
ANECDOTE

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.
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