Leonard Susskind - Is the Cosmos a Computer?

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That the cosmos is a computer sounds like a modern metaphor, a way of explaining how things work. But some make a bolder claim: that the cosmos is in reality a computer, not just as metaphor. This would mean that all that exists in the physical universe is in essence the computational process of the universe itself generating itself. Does that make sense?

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Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He received a BS in physics from City College of New York and a PhD from Cornell University.


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Love Leonard Susskind. He can reduce complex ideas to a form that is intelligible to dummies like me.

raffinee_
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I actually could visualize and understand what susskind was saying, he has got to be one of the best physics explainers.

taylormorrison
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If the cosmos is a computer can someone please reload the 2018 save file? Thanks.

orangeSoda
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Mankind created mathematics in order to access these other realities of the world that our senses can't reach. Best explanation so far.

Jsurf
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Susskind, like Feynman are phenoms. The fact that they both can explain extremely abstract and counterintuitive ideas to lay people and simultaneously understand in a profound way the actual mathematics and physics that are foundational to these ideas includes them in a very select club of geniuses.

michaelweinstein
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Thanks for this talk with a wonderful guest. Susskind makes this topic really interesting and engaging. I highly recommend reading his book: The Black Hole Wars. It is in-put-down-able.

normaodenthal
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This episode really does get us "Closer to Truth"

edgregory
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I love how these brilliant videos come out either once every six months or once every six years 😄

briang
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The best explainer of complexities ever ..Bravo Mr Susskind..Bravo!

joeimbesi
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Susskind is the brightest Guy alive and more importantly the best educator alive--his sharing ability is the best!

evanjameson
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Working on a branch of physics called supersymmetry, Dr. James Gates Jr., discovered what he describes as the presence of what appear to resemble a form of computer code, called error correcting codes, embedded within, or resulting from, the equations of supersymmetry that describe fundamental particles. Gates asks, "How could we discover whether we live inside a Matrix? One answer might be Try to detect the presence of codes in the laws that describe physics." And this is precisely what he has done. Specifically, within the equations of supersymmetry he has found, quite unexpectedly, what are called "doubly-even self-dual linear binary error-correcting block codes." That's a long-winded label for codes that are commonly used to remove errors in computer transmissions, for example to correct errors in a sequence of bits representing text that has been sent across a wire. Gates explains, "This unsuspected connection suggests that these codes may be ubiquitous in nature, and could even be embedded in the essence of reality. If this is the case, we might have something in common with the Matrix science-fiction films, which depict a world where everything human being's experience is the product of a virtual-reality-generating computer network."

dongshengdi
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Plato said the same thing in different words. His theory of the forms is another way of explaining the hologram we live in, the projection we are and everything is.

mygirldarby
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“There are things out there in the universe that we know but nothing”
(David Robinson Crusoe 2021)

Dr.Gunsmith
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Of course. Lovely to know men studied this since the beginning of ‘time’. 🙂🎶🎶 It’s cool throughout & there is an unmistakable music. A ‘hum’ if you will and it ‘crackles’. 💫🪐🌟✨

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I'm afraid that everything is alot more complex than we can ever imagine. It is highly unlikely that there is an enormous hologram that has all the bits of information for the entire Universe. The Universe is absolutely extraordinary and I am sure that the more we delve deeper the more complex it will become. So if there is anyone out there that claims he or she knows 99% of everything they are totally oblivious about what we are dealing with here.

christophercoulter
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We effed up the day we started to count and measure things. We limited our reality to hold a false sensation of control.

MilkoOfficialChannel
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I always understand Leonard, even if the concepts he shares, are probably the most complex and exotic in science.

patmat.
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Simulation parameters: Can a basic germ of consciousness upgrade itself into complex algorithm and reveal the face of game designer? 😎
Kind of like playing hide & seek with our little kids. Time doesn't matter to the game designer as he can always fast forward it at will. The fun of it while life evolves into greater and greater complexity (for us in the simulation) to ultimately get up and see behind the curtain 👽

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More interesting points from these interviews. Makes me wonder if information in the universe is infinite? Of course, that would be exhausting if you are trying to "figure it out." On the other hand, if information in the universe is finite, that would be disappointing--maybe.

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Magic is also counterintuitive and I think we have to console ourselves with the idea that we will never understand "the world" - today we have to say the cosmos. This time I can agree to Professor Süsskind! He points at something very true! We need abstract mathematical models to get along, without impossible!

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