Max Tegmark

“The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of how a…

— Max Tegmark

“In short, computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it’s not the particles but the pattern that really…

— Max Tegmark

“Life 2.0”: life whose hardware is evolved, but whose software is largely designed.”

— Max Tegmark

“When you have the world’s first superintelligent AI working for you, you’re better off investing in your own companies than in those…

— Max Tegmark

In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

— Max Tegmark

“The quantum world feels random, but as we saw in the last chapter, Everett’s work suggests that randomness, too, is an illusion,…

— Max Tegmark

“Although in the external reality of general relativity, you’re an extended braidlike pattern in a static four-dimensional spacetime, you nonetheless perceive yourself…

— Max Tegmark

“As we just saw, some concepts such as symmetries retain their central status. In contrast, other concepts, such as initial conditions, complexity…

— Max Tegmark

“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the…

— Max Tegmark

“our successful theories aren’t mathematics approximating physics, but mathematics approximating mathematics.”

— Max Tegmark

“more than it already did.”

— Max Tegmark

“In other words, we can think of life as a self-replicating information-processing system whose information (software) determines both its behavior and the…

— Max Tegmark

“I’m arguing that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure, which is by definition an abstract, immutable entity existing outside of…

— Max Tegmark

“Getting more tech-savvy people into law schools and governments is probably a smart move for society.”

— Max Tegmark

“For simplicity, this cartoon ignores both the expansion of space and two of the three space dimensions.”

— Max Tegmark

So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn't have hubris and think…

— Max Tegmark

“by leveraging Prometheus’ movie-making talents, the video segments would truly engage, providing powerful metaphors that you would relate to, leaving you craving…

— Max Tegmark

“The essence of instability [in fundamental forces of nature] is that small fluctuations get amplified.”

— Max Tegmark

“Instead, in what he later described as his greatest blunder, he changed his equations by adding an extra term that allowed our…

— Max Tegmark

“Darwin’s theory thus makes the testable prediction that whenever we use technology to glimpse reality beyond the human scale, our evolved intuition…

— Max Tegmark