Lee Cronin
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545 appearances
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Jun 2024
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Yeah. I think that... So I think that...
Well, I think selection.
Selection is the force in the universe that creates novelty.
Yeah. I think persistence of objects that could decay into nothing through operations that maintain that structure. I mean, think about it. It's amazing that things exist at all, that we're just not a big combinatorial mess.
Yeah. I mean, let's think, maybe the universe is actually... But in the present, everything that can exist in the present does exist.
I think the universities might... So the universe started super small. The past was deterministic. There wasn't much going on. It was able to mine, mine, mine, mine, mine. And so the process is somehow generating... The universe is basically... I'm trying to put this into words.
No, I didn't say that. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I said there is free will. I think I'm saying that free will... It occurs at the boundary between the past and the future. Yeah, I got you. But everything that can exist does exist. Everything that's possible to exist at this moment. There's a lot of loaded words there.
I think that the universe is able to do what it can in the present.
right yeah and then i think in the future there are other things that could be possible we can imagine lots of things but they don't all happen sure so what that's where that's where you sneak in free will right there yeah so i guess what i'm saying is what what exists is a com is a convolution of the past with the present and the free will going into the future
And it's an amazing force because you're imagining. This is the most important thing that we don't understand is our imaginations can actually change the future in a tangible way, which is what the initial conditions in physics cannot predict. Like your imagination has a causal consequence in the future.
Isn't that weird too? Yeah. How do you?
It breaks the laws of physics as we know them right now.
Yeah.
If we then go back to the initial conditions, it's simply not possible that can happen. But if we go into a universe where we accept that there is a finite ability to represent numbers and you have rounding errors, your ability to make decisions, imagine and do stuff is at that interface between the certain and the uncertain.
It's not as Yasha was saying to me, randomness goes and you just randomly do random stuff.
it is that you are set free a little on your trajectory free will is about being able to explore on this narrow trajectory um that allows you to build you have a choice about what you build or that choice is uh you interacting with a future in the present what to you is most beautiful about this whole thing the universe
The fact it seems to be very undecided, very open, and the fact that every time I think I'm getting towards an answer to a question, there are so many more questions that make the chase. Do you hate that it's going to be over at some point? Well, for me, I think if you think about it, is it over for Newton now? Newton has had causal consequences in the future. We discuss him all the time.
The person just had a lot of causal power when he was alive. But oh my God, one of the things I want to do is leave as many Easter eggs in the future when I'm gone to go, oh, that's cool.
It would be quite boring because, I mean... No novelty generation? I mean, if it's a faithful representation of what I've done in my life, that's great. That's an interesting artifact. But I think the most interesting thing about knowing each other is we don't know what we're going to do next.
Sure. Sure.
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