Vlad Tenev

the thing being observed, the subject, are part of one system.

And the observer can kind of impact the subject.

Yeah, and so what that makes me think of is

Is this some kind of like lazy evaluation, right?

In programming, you have this concept of lazy evaluation.

I don't know what that is.

So if you have a computer program, that computer program has a bunch of memory that it can access.

But to be efficient, you don't want to claim all the memory right away.

So when the program gets to a particular point,

Then it claims the memory, only when it's needed.

Let's say your program was simulation of the Earth, and you were just in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

It would only load sea.

So you would only see blue ocean around you, and it wouldn't load America yet.

But then maybe you get closer, and okay, now you're within 15 miles.

You see some coastline on the horizon.

then america appears in the program and that memory is is claimed so that's kind of how people program computers because it's much more efficient i don't want to claim all the memory for the whole earth if you're only here and you only need all of this circle around you to experience the program so yeah what i think of in the back of my mind when i think of the double slit experiment is

does the universe work that way, right?

And is it, okay, we're being efficient here.

And if nobody's actually observing these particles, they're just a probabilistic haze that just looks like a big wave.

And then only when you look at them, do they exist.