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Posted on 09/11/2020 12:08:16 PM PDT by Kalija
Futurism: Your paper argues that the universe might fundamentally be a neural network. How would you explain your reasoning to someone who didn’t know very much about neural networks or physics?
Vitaly Vanchurin: There are two ways to answer your question.
The first way is to start with a precise model of neural networks and then to study the behavior of the network in the limit of a large number of neurons. What I have shown is that equations of quantum mechanics describe pretty well the behavior of the system near equilibrium and equations of classical mechanics describes pretty well how the system further away from the equilibrium. Coincidence? May be, but as far as we know quantum and classical mechanics is exactly how the physical world works.
The second way is to start from physics. We know that quantum mechanics works pretty well on small scales and general relativity works pretty well on large scales, but so far we were not able to reconcile the two theories in a unified framework. This is known as the problem of quantum gravity. Clearly, we are missing something big, but to make matters worse we do not even know how to handle observers. This is known as the measurement problem in context of quantum mechanics and the measure problem in context of cosmology.
Then one might argue that there are not two, but three phenomena that need to be unified: quantum mechanics, general relativity and observers. 99% of physicists would tell you that quantum mechanics is the main one and everything else should somehow emerge from it, but nobody knows exactly how that can be done. In this paper I consider another possibility that a microscopic neural network is the fundamental structure and everything else, i.e. quantum mechanics, general relativity and macroscopic observers, emerges from it. So far things look rather promising.
So did Aristotle.
Aristotle argues, in Book 8 of the Physics and Book 12 of the Metaphysics, “that there must be an immortal, unchanging being, ultimately responsible for all wholeness and orderliness in the sensible world”.[4]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover
The movus non movus provides us specially unsearchable riches for His pleasure in my unqualified opinion.
Theoretical Physics—”Your guess is as good as mine.”
The universe is a giant intergalactic garbage unrecycling center.
As above so below
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Thank you Professor Coury!
> Theoretical Physics—”Your guess is as good as mine.” <
Yep. Those guys can say pretty much anything they want, and get away with it.
But it’s worth noting that it was the EXPERIMENTAL physicist (Leonard) who got the beautiful girl across the hall (Penny).
The theoretical physicist (Sheldon) never had a chance.
*ping*
Ever learning, but never coming to the truth?
What is truth? ~~ Pontius Pilate
That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline!
LOL! Awesome.
Call it the “Q” network.
(star trek ref)
Here is a system that you can never really figure out.
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What an original thought!... /s
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