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It might be that human brains can only do so much physics, which is a tiny subset of all the physics there is. It’s amazing upright apes can figure out the spe
by unsupp0rted 4y ago
It might be that human brains can only do so much physics, which is a tiny subset of all the physics there is.
It’s amazing upright apes can figure out the speed of light or postulate and find the Higgs Boson in the first place.
How much physics do we expect the smartest dog in the world to do? What if we 10x’d its lifespan?
At some point either:
1. There is no more physics
2. We build beings that can do physics that we can’t
3. We’re stopped dead in our tracks at the limit of our ability to comprehend things that apes weren’t built to comprehend
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoWe get around this in part by not understanding (or at least remembering our understanding of) many of the basics. Such as this guy who looked things up in a textbook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34236889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34236889 A bunch of blind people could theoretically construct a model of an elephant, if they work together well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
- Mezzie 4y agoLooks like time to pivot to bioengineering and get better physics brains. ;)
- unsupp0rted 4y agoI wonder if we’d have any luck engineering a brain that can visualize higher dimensions the way we visualize 3d. It would be cool to have a brain that sees time, just as an incidental consequence of what’s happening in higher dimensions.
- mansoon 4y agoMy brain did this once. It doesn’t work very well anymore after that.