{"id":178060,"date":"2023-12-11T20:39:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T02:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/observer-theory"},"modified":"2023-12-11T20:39:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T02:39:03","slug":"observer-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/observer-theory","title":{"rendered":"Observer Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/observer-theory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Philosophy of science.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it\u2019s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds.<\/p>\n<p>We might have thought that we could do science \u201cpurely objectively\u201d without any reference to observers or their nature. But what we\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/writings.stephenwolfram.com\/2021\/03\/what-is-consciousness-some-new-perspectives-from-our-physics-project\/\">discovered particularly dramatically<\/a> in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframphysics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Physics Project<\/a> is that the nature of us as observers is critical even in determining the most fundamental laws we attribute to the universe.<\/p>\n<p>But what ultimately does an observer\u2014say like us\u2014do? And how can we make a theoretical framework for it? Much as we have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframscience.com\/nks\/chap-11--the-notion-of-computation\/\">general model for the process of computation <\/a>\u2014instantiated by something like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolframscience.com\/nks\/chap-3--the-world-of-simple-programs#sect-3-4--turing-machines\">Turing machine <\/a>\u2014we\u2019d like to have a general model for the process of observation: a general \u201cobserver theory\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy of science. We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it\u2019s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science \u201cpurely objectively\u201d without [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}