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How I understand it: The world around us is some sort of "projection" of stuff at the very edges of our universe, and that stuff is inherently fragile and unsta
by osrec 8y ago
How I understand it: The world around us is some sort of "projection" of stuff at the very edges of our universe, and that stuff is inherently fragile and unstable. Yet our world/reality/spacetime is not fragile and unstable - quite the opposite, despite being dependent on that fragile stuff in the first place.
Thus it must somehow be "correcting" for the intrinsic instability of the stuff on the outer edges that gives rise to our reality. Therefore it is in some sense an error correcting code.
Happy to be corrected by those with a deeper understanding!
- neom 8y agoThe world science festival has a good video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnETCBOlzJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnETCBOlzJs - The "correction" could very well be reconciliation, the output of what plays out in the program + the program is procedurally generated based on the outputs. Another good talk is this one by John Preskill from 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW2rlQVfnK0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW2rlQVfnK0