Why Are Humans in a 3 Dimensional Reality?

Stephen Wolfram is a theoretical physicist, mathematician, and computer scientist known for his work in cellular automata, computational theory, and as the creator of the Wolfram Alpha computational engine and the Mathematica software system.

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[davepuxley]

Wolfram here restates a lovely piece of perennialist wisdom, namely that "the mode of the knower conditions the mode of the known". Boethius, in the Consolation of Philosophy from the 5th century, puts it thus: "whatsoever we come to know, we do so not according to its power [to be known] but by the faculties of the knower"

[scoutylugs]

This is another take on Douglas Adams quote… "Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!”

You cannot perceive a system you’re not a part of (physical matter), and you can’t know what isn’t perceivable outside your system.

Like Penrose says, all we see is the Interface and we’re assuming that’s real. It’s not. It’s the interface we’ve adapted to see.

[adityaitagi]

It was amazing to hear such a brilliant guest talk about the nature of the universe!! Always grateful for you Curt 🥰

[charlesvandenburgh]

He's articulating what philosophers have long recognized;: What is known cannot be separated from the means by which it is known.

[pilotnamealreadytaken]

Wow what an interview! Congrats Curt on getting such a huge interview! ❤

[nathanryan]

I thoroughly enjoyed this Toe clipping

[gregoryallen]

omg this is key.. how EVERYTHING we understand is limited/distorted by our 5 senses.
when we try to imagine a sense we don't possess.. we have to resort to the senses we do possess

[PhilosopherScholar]

We don't see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.

[unklraynutter]

This is on point!

We can only make sense of what we can perceive. And then try to explain what we can observe.

[foundmonster]

I would love Wolfram to chat about phenomenology and the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, etc. because all of phenomenology was to state: we can only see and understand the world through our senses, and even so, there is so much work being done behind the scenes by our subconscious that the reality we even see is a fabrication of sorts.

They each approach a whole lot else, obviously, but that's the core of it, or the overlap with what he's talking about here, just from his own POV. Would love to hear him discuss this.

[charlesblithfield]

Universe as computation - 21st century thinking (Wolfram)
Universe as electromagnetic 19th century thinking (Maxwell)
Universe as a mechanical engine - pre 19th century thinking (Newton)

[audiodead]

Fascinating talk. Wolfram always delivers.

[nextobserver]

"The electron is transporting its electron-ness through space and time" - Stephen Wolfram.
That's a brand new sentence the universe can be proud of.

[Georgian_Spy]

🔥🔥 “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” - Werner Heisenberg,

[Jacobk-gr]

1:51 i would say this is a misunderstanding. We don’t compress. Light shares with us and we see the difference and become different expanding our range. Just like eating and how it breaks the food down and then shares the differences to expand the range of our body and not just size but like gas and how we can go further. The mind eats to see further. So a potential can be imagined and thought of as impossible but finding the between here and there, like finding the steps between can bring the Impossiblè out due to our connection to the infinite potential. What I mean is that our mind can show us stuff that is farther than the current because it’s crossing the differences to see farther into the dimensions. It’s like seeing hydrogen and two oxygens and electrons, it can be more than just water and can be constructed into other things. Like imagining the Big Bang and shifting some of the differences or measurements can predict other forms like other potential planets. If by some technology we could create a compressed area we could inception big bangs and then have them cycle like an engine and expand like foam from a soda but controlled or entangled or structured. It would be cyclical similar to magnetic fields flipping and flopping in metaphysics or like the rotation of the solar system locking each other in.
My b, went into hypotheticals. Yeah i see what you’re saying but it’s not the only way, you don’t have to make equivalence, all you do is use words that call to others knowledge and if they don’t have it, you share as much as you can and then when they see it, it can call the info but the info isn’t all of it, just the same as earth isn’t all life so we think of others, our info isn’t absolute but shared by the differences. I don’t think our capacity is limited, only our beliefs limit us. It’s like this, i can’t deny because i am not the universe so i don’t know, none of us do and so we share to expand the knowledge we have. None of us have the capacity to say what is or isnt because we are not all of it and so the paths are hidden in plain sight between measurements. When we listen to the differences of the measurements then we can understand how but if we deny and believe limitations then we build walls and it’s hard to see through a wall, especially one placed by your own beliefs. I believe in infinity.
What also funny is that people who believe in gods say that it’s infinite but then box it in for some reason and say it’s all good or something like that. Kinda funny because how is it infinite if it’s not bad as well? I don’t believe that god is a singular but everything/infinity is sharing, what that means is that we all have the options of potentials and will to share them into being, not just us but even the animals and winds but they aren’t as expanded as our form but we can entangle and share the words they whisper in our ears. Those words aren’t just theirs but the universes the same as our words and thoughts. Sorry went off the deep end for a second because it’s hard to share what i mean. Religion tried to do it and ended up twisting it.

[bingading]

This interview reminds me of a Joe Rogan podcast about DMT which some have described as a molecular technology that allows the exploration of an alternate reality, a place more real than real.

[nadanabil]

I have several questions and arguments, if they can be addressed by Stephen that would be great:

1. Is establishing equivalences a property of the language (even the most universal language, math) has to define a label and boundary on what is being observed, and so it introduces this reductionism, or is equivalence a property of a physical law that only allows "observation" through coupling and interaction? so the universe in nature might be simply into equivalences.

2. I see a lot of mixing between language and reality here, as gas molecules, we can't deduce that entropy (which is global coupling) is increasing, but we would be able to tell that the rate of coupling and decoupling between us and other molecules within some distance is increasing. Information is fundamental beyond the reduction of our minds, whether we call it entropy or coupling rate. How do you think of information fundamentality? and I understand very well that information falls from "questions" bound by language, but I am talking here about something like gravity being an emergent property of a fundamental information attraction law.

3.Perceiving the laws is one thing and formulating "relevance" of scales is another thing, the only thing that changes between observation levels is the gradient of time, what is your comment on that? the gradient of time.

[billybrown]

As a frequent lucid dreamer and being able to experience another life through consciousness with no boundaries, waking up in a 3d world daily feels like a restriction and a trap. Perhaps the world was created to keep us contained for a higher realm as we sleep?

[moshecallen]

My dissertation on assumptions of general relativity addresses this topic (why the world is 3+1-D) from a different POV.
Callen, Moshe. Assumptions of General Relativity and Cosmology. [My dissertation]

[unklraynutter]

As above so below.

The mapped neuro net resembles the plasma web of our known universe.

We just cant explain it....much less understand in totality.