(2024-09-13, 08:21 AM)Max_B Wrote: Penington's lecture. Beginning around time @4:48, I love this section of his lecture, explaining his discovery... it's all there... in less than 60 seconds... and later it turned out that this was indeed the most important part of his discovery.
Perhaps people don't get this... that Penington is telling us that copies (simulations) are connected in a way that transcends spacetime
That at a base level... somehow, matching patterns transcend spacetime... that is, matching patterns can be shared... (personally I'd say matching patterns can add up outside of spacetime).
As an analogy, where we substitute the
helix-like infinite cylinders found by Nima, for lego bricks...
We can all share the base level 2x4 lego brick on the left perfectly, because we all have them, and they all match... but what we build out of these 2x4 lego bricks (on the right) can be different... so that these emerging structures are not shareable... yet the 2x4 bricks they are made out of
remain shareable.
Naturally,
Nima's helix-like infinite cylinders are a vastly simpler, and massive improvement in the shape of a structure which allows many more different ways of sharing, compared on the lego bricks... but you get the idea, I hope.
What we all agree on, therefore, is what we must all share... so the replication requirements of science... really confine scientists to exploring their own experiences, and then comparing them with one another, to discover those experiences that they all agree on.
Penington, Nima are showing us that matching patterns which are unconnected here in spacetime, theoretically do connect outside of spacetime. That's all we need to explain all common anomalous human experiences, and ultimately reveals that this is how ALL experience is ACTUALLY constructed.
Our experience seems to be the
result of adding-up all those matching patterns, but these patterns are somehow constrained by all the incompatible patterns that do not add up.
Within these ideas... are all the improved explanations for why advertising works, a break is as good as a rest, why people feel recharged after changing jobs, why we take holidays, why we tend to decorate a new home we move into... etc... etc...