So, this one is quite mind bending.
Here’s your episode with Professor Vitaly Vanchurin. This is not a hand-wavy “the universe looks like a brain” talk. There’s no prattling about universal function approximation (although it’s mentioned). Instead, something far stranger is going on… We cover:
The Universe’s learning dynamics as fundamental physics… That’s right. The laws of physics as the means by which the universe learns.
How the Schrödinger equation emerges from a classical system that can borrow and return neurons (a grand canonical ensemble)
Natural selection operating at the scale of electrons, not just organisms
Why Vanchurin says we need to unify not two but three things: quantum mechanics, general relativity, and observers
The self-tuning universe: not a fine-tuned magnate of coincidences, but a system that learns to host observers
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