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Published · transcript-backedSara Walker: evaluation
13 Jun 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #433 – Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens
“Because there’s this constant branching, but it doesn’t really have a directionality to it.”
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- Sara Walker
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- 13 Jun 2024
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…Okay. Well, there you go. But in the past, according to you, it’s already gigantic. Yeah. But yeah, that’s consistent with many worlds, right? Because there’s this constant branching, but it doesn’t really have a directionality to it. I don’t know. Many worlds is weird. So my interpretation of reality is if you fold it up, all that bifurcation of many worlds, and you just fold it into the structure that is you, and you just said you are all of those many worlds and your history converged on you, but you’re actually an object exists that was selected to exist, and you’re self-consistent with the other structures. So the quantum mechanical reality is not the one that you live in. It’s this very deterministic, classical world, and you’re carving a path through that space. But I don’t think that you’re constantly branching into new spaces. I think you are that space. Wait, so to you, at the bottom, it’s deterministic? I thought you said the universe is just a bunch of random-…
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