The Observer in Physics, Part 3: Science Needs a Covenant between Truth and Language

In Part 3 of this discussion regarding the role of the observer, Glen weaves together ideas of robust computing (demon horde sort) and distributed intelligence. He makes the claim that it could be mathematically verified whether or not computation is fundamental, and that if it turns out to be so, then language is also fundamental, since computation and language are inextricably intertwined. We also learn that handedness (chirality) is hierarchical. links follow timestamps

Timestamps

0:00 Intro

0:15 Recapping the end of Part 2

2:00 Central Planning v. Distributed Intelligence 3:00 Responding to viewer’s comments

4:45 PBS Spacetime on the participatory universe 8:32 John Wheeler’s biggest question: Whose bit?

12:20 Implications of observers and the quantum mechanical universe

16:20 A vision of Wholeness

18:30 A challenge for mathematicians

20:35 If there is a point where entanglement does not affect the next layer up, that would solve the Wigner’s Friends paradox and would also illustrate that computation is fundamental.

24:00 Robodog as a way to explore learning systems and language in robotics

28:00 An exploration of group intelligence and the conversation as adaptable

31:30 Handedness is essential and implies Hierarchy

33:30 The language called Forth

38:20 Context Free Grammar, indexed grammars, natural language processing

41:35 The layers of Grammar

47:30 Field workers will probably never be replaced by robots, not a menial task, very complex

51:35 If computation is fundamental, we need a covenant between Truth and Language

53:40 Trust Networks and Cesar Hidalgo

57:50 Decisions at the level of the input output are more effective than centrally planned ones.

1:02:00 Questions about Darwin

1:07:20 It depends on what question you want answered

1:07:45 Questions about Space and Time, the reality of Possibilities and Options

1:11:15 Computational irreducibility is more intuitive if you talk about languages

Finite State Machines on Reason to Believe https://youtu.be/6FOJWxdTvms

“The "Meta" Hard Problem of Consciousness and Quantum Babbling with Levin, Friston, and Fields,” https://youtu.be/J6eJ44Jq_pw

"Cracking The Nutshell," https://www.youtube.com/c/CrackingTheNutshell

"Do Electrons Have Free Will? The Conway-Kochen Free Will Theorem - Closing the Free Will Loophole,' https://youtu.be/7ZqUEAACfyk PBS Space-Time,

“Does the Universe Create Itself?” https://youtu.be/I8p1yqnuk8Y?t=600

"Robust-first computing: Demon Horde Sort (short version)," https://youtu.be/lbgzXndaNKk

"Forth the Hackers Language," https://hackaday.com/2017/01/27/forth-the-hackers-language/