That quote is appropriate, because we originally discussed this issue in terms of the Hard Problem of Consciousness. From either end--subjective to objective--we can't say what reality *is*. All we can do is trace the connections/structures, and those connections are meaning, information. So why doe...

The idea comes from physicist John Archibald Wheeler, in his 1989 paper, INFORMATION, PHYSICS, QUANTUM: THE SEARCH FOR LINKS. Describing this in my own words, the gist is that every physical property of particles (mass, spin, charge, etc.) is nothing more than a numeric or mathematical quantity meas...

It has begun! Disclosure is here!

The President's (elect) own son is declaring to the world that we're not alone and there's a crash retrieval program!

This is the moment! We're about to have it acknowledged. The world is about to change.

Yeah, I posted the "unified theory" of all 3 thinkers just as an experiment. I didn't expect anyone to take it seriously and study it. However, being familiar with all three, I do think it's an amazing synthesis that goes from metaphysics (Langan) to computation (Wolfram) to quantum mechan...

I went a little nuts. :bounce03: Please construct a metaphysical and physical theory that is a synthesis of Chris Langan’s view of the multiverse with Stephen Wolfram’s view of the multiverse with David Deutsch’s view of the multiverse. ChatGPT said: ChatGPT Creating a synthesized metaphysical and p...

While there might be quite a bit of formalism and rigor missing in Langan's theory (IDK), his theory is relevant to science even if it's not science. It's an epistemological justification for any scientific theory whatsoever, the first step you have to make in order to do science. But science just i...

You must be ahead of me. I don't remember anything about butterfly effect. I just finished chapter 8. When I asked ChatGPT to explain the chapter, it returned a discussion of multiverse, which may help you, but it doesn't match what I read I chapter 8, which was The Significance of Life and a discus...

+JMJ+ That's another example of the kind of trolling I've seen, people claiming that Langan doesn't understand things that he very clearly does. I see this over and over. One "professor" claimed that he didn't understand what a theory is, but this "professor" didn't understand t...

Heh, I've struck up a conversation with Chris in Youtube comments on one of his 4 hour interviews! He said that the AI interpretations of his work have been passable. I'm not sure where to go from there. Should I ask him if he knows the difference between syntax and semantics? A freshman level disti...

That's another example of the kind of trolling I've seen, people claiming that Langan doesn't understand things that he very clearly does. I see this over and over. One "professor" claimed that he didn't understand what a theory is, but this "professor" didn't understand that he'...

This is like having a college professor, sitting there with you while you read something to explain every sentence and word. I just find that amazing.

But that’s just an analysis of one sentence, taken from the abstract for a 56 page paper. Here’s the whole abstract: Inasmuch as science is observational or perceptual in nature, the goal of providing a scientific model and mechanism for the evolution of complex systems ultimately requires a support...

I mentioned in another thread Chris Langan, the alleged "smartest man on the planet" with an IQ of 200. He has a theory of everything that most people think is gibberish, and he has suffered a lot of ridicule from trolls online. Unfortunately, this is his main outlet because he is self-tau...

Chapter 8 - The Significance of Life is just amazing. The point is that although all known life is based on replicators, what the phenomenon of life is really about is knowledge. We can give a definition of adaptation directly in terms of knowledge: an entity is adapted to its niche if it embodies ...

Thus the prevailing view today is that life, far from being central, either geometrically, theoretically or practically, is of almost inconceivable insignificance. Biology, in this picture, is a subject with the same status as geography. Knowing the layout of the city of Oxford is important to thos...

If everything reduces down to information, as he suggests, then why isn’t there only one kind of causation? Why does there have to be a material causation and an informational causation? Wouldn’t it just all be information causation?

The chapter with the imaginary dialogue is a bit of a chore to get through. But he makes good points. I'm already on board with his argument against inductivism, so I don't need all this convincing. I've been watching interviews with Stephen Wolfram. He has a computational model of reality that I th...

Fist, yes his points about VR seem way ahead of their time, and much deeper than any discussion of VR I've ever seen. I just read an article today that VR had finally come of age. I agree. I demoed an Apple Vision Pro recently and I was astonished. I'd never seen something so realistic in my life. ...

What we believe is based upon our perceptions. I don't think this part is true. We believe plenty of things that aren't based on our perceptions. No one has ever seen god, for instance. But this goes for physical things, too, like the entire world behind me that I can't see until I turn my head. Ev...

"Hung up" was a poor choice of words. I just meant it's a throwaway point for him. We're used to thinking of VR as fake, in the same class as a hallucination. But the entire point of VR is to create a system that can simulate reality. And that's the point of our senses, too. So our experie...