The Last Theory
The Last Theory
The Last Theory
    Episode #012    
7 July 2022
Beware invisible things
Notes

We humans have always been fond of invisible things.

Poltergeists, fairies, unicorns, the Yeti, the Lost City of Atlantis.

Just because you can’t see them, it doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

Scientists, no less than any other humans, suffer from this fondness for invisible things.

Phlogiston, miasma, ether, strings.

Just because you can’t see them, scientists have insisted, it doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

Beware these invisible things.

As I explore Wolfram Physics, I’m aware of certain invisible things that we believe in now, but we’re going to have to let go, if Stephen Wolfram is right.

And I’m also aware of the temptation to replace this old set of invisible things with a new set of invisible things.

Here’s why we’d do well to resist.

The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery, founder of Open Web Mind

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“Things we can never see have no influence on the universe, but they do have an influence on our minds
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“Any observer must be inside the graph, part of the graph”
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“We will never be able to see the nodes and edges of Wolfram’s graphs”
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“We will never be able to see any computer that runs the universe”
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“Beware invisible things”
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