Elan Barenholtz
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2,007 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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It's not real no, it's not about our our our uh our our particular characterization of physics.
Our characterization of physics observes certain kinds of spatiotemporal continuity, certain kinds of uh contingencies that really depend uh on what's happened in in not just it's not about this instantaneous moment.
Uh right, like uh i in some ways.
Uh it's like Xeno's paradox.
It's it's you know we we can use calculus and say, no, no, and in fact there's an instantaneous rate of change.
But
That's that's a mathematical trick.
That's really getting away from the fact that no, there isn't an instantaneous anything.
Uh there's simply uh continuity that depends on what's happened uh in the past.
But I know I'm gonna get attacked by physicists uh and I'm not really well equipped uh to fend them off.
So I I don't wanna uh you know be be too bold uh in this piece because it's not in my wheelhouse.
Um but but I I will I I do wanna t uh take that that question uh and and this conversation.
Do I think the brain is just leveraging sort of the memory of the universe?
No.
I think the brain, I think and and this is an empirical claim.
I the we we see interesting features of the brain like feedback loops.
Uh there's this all these all these um uh the backwards kinds of connectivity.
Uh there's recurrent loops, things like that, and they're not well understood.
And the predictive coding uh has some things to say about that.
Uh I have some things to say about predictive coding.
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