Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.800

   The other thing to say is, a lot of phenomena   that I've understood by doing computational  experiments, thinking about their results   and so on, those phenomena absolutely existed in  simulations people had done for other purposes,   but they ignored them. In other words, there's a  rich literature of places where people had studied   systems similar to ones I've studied and the main  thing they said was, oh, there's some noise in the   system and it's a nuisance and we don't really  care about it. What they concentr…

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2. 02 · _intake0.799

   The irony for me, is that early in the 20th century all discoveries in biology were motivated from questions about the integrated nature of the ecologic systems on Earth. Since the discovery of DNA we have moved far from that idea. The further we have moved from it the worse humans have fared in wellness because modern technology has allowed us to disconnect and uncouple from the natural cycles life is built upon. When I looked back on this process via my reading, I realized I needed to look carefully how we are biogeochemically coupled to processes on Earth, and how well or poor we remain int…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/ubiquitination-11-your-quantized-ecosystem.md

3. 03 · yt0.795

   and then seeing that that that that sort of how that interacts with us as kind of computationally limited observers of things leads to the second law. Well, okay. to tell a little bit more of the of the personal story. I um uh I was sort of started off studying cellular automter and um all these kinds of things back I mean this this picture I first saw in in 1984 and this whole idea of computational reducibility and so on comes from from that time. Um the uh then I ended up going back into technology development in 1988. We brought out Mathematica. Um and then few years after that I went back …

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4. 04 · yt0.794

   You know, I was observing myself because my conscious was in this you know sea of white scintillating light that was coming out of me. So, so I am you know I am both the source and the observer. I'm of of this thing you know that I am observing and and uh and what I am is love joy and peace which is you know wow that's crazy you know I I thought I was a you know I was a human being a machine uh made of biological stuff and of course in those days I had not come to the conclusion that biology was had to be quantum and classical. I thought you know I I again I bought the the idea that life is a …

   yt/QfP5BgOz97U-quantum-consciousness-and-the-illusion-of-reality-federico-f/transcript.txt

5. 05 · yt0.793

   Actually, the most bizarre thing  is that I, back in the early '80s, when I was   doing a bunch of technology development trying  to understand things about recursive function   evaluation for technology development, I thought I  was doing that. I was also working on gauge theory   and QCD and quantum field theory and so on. I thought that was a, and also in general   relativity and so on, I thought these were  completely separate activities. Only to discover   recently that the questions about how you choose  simultane…

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6. 06 · yt0.792

   Never expected that.   And then there was another one where, having  seen that particular phenomenon, there was   another one where I kind of suspected this one  is going to stop, and that one stops after some,   well let's see, that one I kind of found a method  for figuring out how it will develop and that one   I think stops after a few billion steps. So  these are things you just don't expect and   this is very typical of what happens in this  computational universe. It's a bit similar to   the physical un…

   yt/FkYer0xP37E-stephen-wolfram-s-radical-theory-of-everything/transcript.txt

7. 07 · _intake0.789

   The design process of life begins with the DNA code. Biology today is a detailed, disorganized collection of disparate facts. It is like a hoarder’s basement, or a rat’s nest. There is no connecting design of what is buried in DNA’s code. You can scoop up a bag full of facts and try to make sense of it, but that would be an exercise in futility. *True knowledge is fractal and non linear.* The design can be complex, with microscopic details, but the overall design is coherent and beautiful. **To make large collections of proteins coherent you need to link them together electrically.** This idea…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/time-23-dna-codes-quantum-evolution.md

8. 08 · yt0.788

   Um, so anyway, this is this is what one finds. This is just looking at each each picture here is a different possible underlying rule. So they're in a sense different artificial physicses and the question is what do they all do? So many of them do very simple things but my all-time favorite science discovery is the one numbered 30 there rule 30 and if you look at what it does has a very simple uh kind of rule for how it's constructed but yet you started off in just one black cell it makes this pattern that seems kind of complicated. When I first saw this I kind of thought well if I run it long…

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9. 09 · yt0.788

   Um I will say the um uh turns out and it took about 50 years for me to sort of straighten this out that actually that original question that I had about the second law of thermodynamics is all about computational irreducibility in the end. So if if we take uh you know something gas molecules in the box bouncing around becoming more random, we can look at sort of a space-time picture of that, we can kind of simplify it a bit and we can end up with something that's just one of these cellar automaton systems where we just have a a grid of cells and we're just updating cells according to the value…

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10. 10 · yt0.787

    By the time I got to the end of my April humor, I I just I could have stopped writing in this book, but I thought, well, that's I've written so much so far, I better go on. And so I more or less thought of some idea, which I didn't really believe. I tried to think of something that might be non-computable. You see, so that's where things were for Roger's idea. He suspected there must be some kind of quantum effects in the brain, but he didn't know where to look. But at the same time in America there was a young anesthesiologist named Stuart Hammeroff who was interested in consciousness and uh …

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