'Physics as Information Processing' ~ Chris Fields ~ Lecture 5

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“Physics as Information Processing”
Course taught by Chris Fields
Course assistant is Ander Aguirre
Hosted during 2023 by the Active Inference Institute

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[m..l.]

Thank you! This theory was good for a scared lonely man to hear.

[williambudden]

Very much looking forward to the next session.
Thanks guys. Appreciate that you guys put this out for everyone 🙏🏾

[ai-uruv]

dentist here, working on developmental biology. amazing lecture thank you

[nuetrino]

oh man! thanks so much for sharing this

[koalanights]

high school drop out musician here. mind blowing, thank you so much for this!

[margrietoregan]

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Theory to get classical physics it's this idea of object persistence now once we have object persistence we
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can kind of go to town constructing space
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um and here's how we do it
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uh we all we all learned about object persistence this way uh when we were six
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months old doing motor babbling and observing our hands and feeling how
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our bodies worked and seeing objects that we could could
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manipulate and that didn't change when we manipulated them
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so this is the birth of object persistence this is the birth of classicality
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uh in in human psychology
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so now let's start thinking about building a coordinate system what's a coordinate system a coordinate system is

[kvaka]

But why not accept that emergence and construction are themselves ontologically basic? Especially if we aren't after a reductionist theory of nature.