How Human is Consciousness? - Stephen Wolfram at the FAU Center for Future Mind

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[dpshtcty]

He has given this presentation many times. And I love it every time.

[ninadesianti]

Mind blowing! The best and most consistent explanation so far on how we perceive our universe. I read a book in my teenage years, the transcript of the discussion between David Bohm and Jiddu Krishnamuti on the problem of the observer and the observed, but the explanation did not go far and ended in somewhat merely mystical experiences, I get confused! But I continued with practicing sitting quietly, and I almost become a monk in desperation for dealing with the computational irreducibility haha! I wish I knew about “A new Kind of Science” back then and have the positive attitude of that of Dr. Stephen Wolfram on the endless possibilities in the computational irreducibility of our universe! I’m glad to be alive in this time of age! Thank you so much for your work and your research, Dr. Wolfram! It’s all exciting, and I would like to try to use it in studying the pattern of species distribution of a particular group of microorganisms and hoping to come up with the reducible computation model to predict their distribution. Can I do that?

[PeterHarket]

Great to have you back probing the grand questions Stephen! Would love to see a similar video on your thoughts on how the Wolfram Physics Project explain evolution.

[LS-quyc]

“Science limits itself from the inside “ what a beautiful statement

[LissandaEloria]

38:52 “What is a story about geodesics in physical space in space-time is a story about the evolution of amplitudes in branchial space. So in a sense, quantum mechanics and relativity are the same theory, simply played out in different kinds of space”.

Right then. If that is indeed correct, that is a pretty massive insight into the nature of the universe. Coming from Stephen Wolfram, someone who is a leading thinker of our time, it certainly deserves very thorough consideration.

Anyone who considers themselves to be a serious thinker, please take the time to digest that statement and its implications and join the conversation.

I personally expect it will take me some time to fully understand and appreciate what is happening here, but I have a feeling it will be worth it. This feels like a major breakthrough.

Thank you Stephen for all that you do 🙏🏾

Even if you are wrong, you have sparked a very interesting conversation, and if you are right, this is a major step forward in our understanding of how the universe works imho. Homage.

[RayStraiter]

My mind s BLOWN! Thank you Stephen Wolfram!

[Anders]

I like Wolfram's idea of applying all possible rules simultaneously. And I guess that the set of rules that corresponds to our physical reality is a particular equivalence class of all those possible rules. Consciousness I see as a state of being aware as a self and according to the Integrated Information Theory consciousness is a result of integration of information.

[claytongeist]

You've got building blocks, and there are many, many complicated ways to produce the same result, but nature tends toward the lowest energy state toward self-harmony, meaning most efficient, during this epoch, the most complex behavior for the simplest process. This means that the complicated nature of chaos in nature emerges from these automata, and their interactions in the possibility space.

Something like that.

[Constantinesis]

So we as humans we are entities of a single Universe, spreading itself through these multiway branches, expanding its awareness and self awareness? The question is why are we limited to a perceive only a single branch? Could there be other entities that evolved differently into a broader perception and consciousness?

[havardholland]

the 30 is aiming for a 3d representation, is it searching for itself in the extra dimension, limits from inside leads to a outburst growth creation(computing)

[markcarter]

So more rules are fine just follow your own rules thanks again

[parker]

I like to think of the initial cell of a cellular automaton as the singularity at t=0 of the universe and then the iterations after that based on rules coupled with the initial cell represent the evolution of the universe (from the inception of the universe and onward). It's like the universe is self- computational.

Edit: Wolfram's idea of a computational universe sounds strikingly similar to Chris Langan's CTMU. Wolfram's describes observers in space (us) as part of the atoms of the universe (the universe is a consciousness that simulates us and our consciousness) so we are just part of the universes consciousness. The fundamental concept of the CTMU is just this (coined "telisis" by Chris). It's a shame that Chris and his ideas are being pushed aside by the academic society because of either a lack of understanding of the CTMU or the egotistical motives of academics.

A partnership between Stephen Wolfram and Chris Langan would be awesome, there would be a great synergy between their ideas. Wolframs comp universe is an explicit and visual way of describing the CTMU. Also, the comp is built from the ground up rather than the ceiling down in which the CTMU is synthesized from inductive logic.

[AndreasHLux]

34:15 ..."... in general ..."

[maxwelldillon]

How can you claim we have free will if by your own theory, the universe consists of a network of points updating their relative positions in accordance with some rule which we don't control and did not author?

[Nukatha]

I need to hear Stephen talking about this with Jordan Peterson.

[EricDMMiller]

How can anyone not approach nihilism in the face of the principle of computational sophistication?