{"id":10953,"date":"2020-09-15T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10953"},"modified":"2020-09-14T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T02:16:10","slug":"the-cosmic-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/15\/the-cosmic-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cosmic Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/physicist-entire-universe-neural-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Futurism<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Physicist: The Entire Universe Might Be a Neural Network<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The idea is definitely crazy, but if it is crazy enough to be true? That remains to be seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/authors\/victor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VICTOR TANGERMANN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-14-at-19.03.53.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-14-at-19.03.53.jpg 579w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-14-at-19.03.53-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not every day that we come across a paper that attempts to redefine reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2008.01540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">provocative preprint<\/a>\u00a0uploaded to\u00a0<em>arXiv<\/em>\u00a0this summer, a physics professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth named Vitaly Vanchurin attempts to reframe reality in a particularly eye-opening way \u2014 suggesting that we\u2019re living inside a massive neural network that governs everything around us. In other words, he wrote in the paper, it\u2019s a \u201cpossibility that the entire universe on its most fundamental level is a neural network.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years, physicists have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/quantum-gravitys-time-problem-20161201\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attempted to reconcile<\/a>\u00a0quantum mechanics and general relativity. The first posits that time is universal and absolute, while the latter argues that time is relative, linked to the fabric of space-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his paper, Vanchurin argues that artificial neural networks can \u201cexhibit approximate behaviors\u201d of both universal theories. Since quantum mechanics \u201cis a remarkably successful paradigm for modeling physical phenomena on a wide range of scales,\u201d he writes, \u201cit is widely believed that on the most fundamental level the entire universe is governed by the rules of quantum mechanics and even gravity should somehow emerge from it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ click to continue reading at Futurism ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Futurism Physicist: The Entire Universe Might Be a Neural Network &#8220;The idea is definitely crazy, but if it is crazy enough to be true? That remains to be seen.&#8221; by VICTOR TANGERMANN It\u2019s not every day that we come across a paper that attempts to redefine reality. But in a\u00a0provocative preprint\u00a0uploaded to\u00a0arXiv\u00a0this summer, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}