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#585: Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More

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Volume vs. Surface Area: The Surprising Truth of Information Storage

The amount of information that can be stored in a black hole is determined not by its volume, but by its surface area. This revelation, proved by Stephen Hawking, challenges conventional thinking about data storage, especially concerning physical structures such as hard drives. Understanding this principle leads to a deeper insight into the nature of space-time, suggesting that while it serves as a useful data structure, it is not the fundamental object we previously believed it to be.

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