Physics Quote by Max Tegmark

““the challenge for physics is deriving the consensus reality from the external reality, and the challenge for cognitive science is to derive the internal reality from the consensus reality.””

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“Aristarchos simply divided it by 3.7 and got the size of the Moon!”

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“I view the measure problem as the greatest crisis in physics today.”

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“the whole can contain less information than the sum of its parts—and sometimes even less than one of its parts!”

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“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. —Albert Einstein”

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“Why do we perceive the world as stable and ourselves as local and unique? Here’s my guess: because it’s useful.”

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“the neuron bundle comes from our eyes, ears, nose, mouth or skin. The key difference lies not in the neurons that carry this information,…

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“In other words, even though an observer moment objectively occupies less than a liter of volume and a second of time, it subjectively feels…

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“Neural networks have now transformed both biological and artificial intelligence, and have recently started dominating the AI subfield known as machine learning (the study…

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