{"id":151176,"date":"2022-11-26T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/history-of-the-universe-from-a-neural-network"},"modified":"2022-11-26T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:26:03","slug":"history-of-the-universe-from-a-neural-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/history-of-the-universe-from-a-neural-network","title":{"rendered":"History of the Universe from a Neural Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fx_9OPZgaAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Vitaly Vanchurin, physicist and cosmologist at the University of Minnesota Duluth speaks to Luis Razo Bravo of EISM about the world as a neural network, machine learning, theories of everything, interpretations of quantum mechanics and long-term human survival.<\/p>\n<p>Timestamp of the conversation:<\/p>\n<p>00:00 \u2014 Opening quote by Vanchurin.<br \/> 00:53 \u2014 Introduction to Vanchurin.<br \/> 03:17 \u2014 Vanchurin\u2019s thoughts about human extinction.<br \/> 05:56 \u2014 Brief background on Vanchurin\u2019s research interests.<br \/> 10:24 \u2014 How Vanchurin became interested in neural networks.<br \/> 12:31 \u2014 How quantum mechanics can be used to understand neural networks.<br \/> 18:56 \u2014 How and where does gravity fit into Vanchurin\u2019s model?<br \/> 20:39 \u2014 Does Vanchurin incorporate holography (AdS\/CFT) into hid model?<br \/> 24:14 \u2014 Maybe the entirety of physics is an \u201cemergent\u201d neural network.<br \/> 28:08 \u2014 Maybe there are forms of life that are more fit to survive than humans.<br \/> 28:58 \u2014 Maldacena\u2019s \u201cprinciple of Maximal life\u201c<br \/> 29:28 \u2014 Theories of Everything.<br \/> 31:06 \u2014 Why Vanchurin\u2019s framework is potentially a true TOE (politics, ethics, etc.)<br \/> 34:07 \u2014 Why physicists don\u2019t like to talk to philosophers and ask big questions.<br \/> 36:45 \u2014 Why the growing number of theories of everything?<br \/> 39:11 \u2014 Apart from his own, does Vanchurin have a favorite TOE?<br \/> 41:26 \u2014 Bohmian mechanics and Aharanov\u2019s Two-time approach to quantum mechanics.<br \/> 43:53 \u2014 How has Vanchurin\u2019s recent paper been received? Beliefs about peer review.<br \/> 46:03 \u2014 Connecting Vanchurin\u2019s work to machine learning and recommendations.<br \/> 49:21 \u2014 Leonard Susskind, quantum information theory, and complexity.<br \/> 51:23 \u2014 Maybe various proposals are looking at the same thing from different angles.<br \/> 52:17 \u2014 How to follow Vanchurin\u2019s work and connect to him.<\/p>\n<p>Vanchurin\u2019s paper on the world as a NN: <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2008.01540\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2008.01540<\/a><br \/> Vanchurin on a theory of machine learning: <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2004\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2004<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vanchurin\u2019s website and research interests: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.d.umn.edu\/cosmology\/\">https:\/\/www.d.umn.edu\/cosmology\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about EISM at <a href='http:\/\/www.eism.eu.' rel='nofollow'>www.eism.eu.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/history-of-the-universe-from-a-neural-network\">Continue reading \u201cHistory of the Universe from a Neural Network\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitaly Vanchurin, physicist and cosmologist at the University of Minnesota Duluth speaks to Luis Razo Bravo of EISM about the world as a neural network, machine learning, theories of everything, interpretations of quantum mechanics and long-term human survival. 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