Unifying the Inflationary & Quantum Multiverses (Max Tegmark)

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1. Physics is the science of measurement, of probability, in which no matter how close to absolute certainty the results of measurement may approach, there will always be some relative proportion of uncertainty, and that is the actual reality. So the set of quantified qualities sufficient to satisfy the appropriate degree of certainty, that's what continues to evolve in constant change and is a unique combination of wave characteristics within the whole.
   
   To borrow from electronics, every integration of information in the universe operates at a unique "quiesient" value dependant on everything else, so although atoms in a crystal operate "in parallel" none are perfectly identical even at absolute zero and they are equivalent real phased projections of one probability objective, QFT, not illusory separate objects.
2. there is a lot more than can be seen. a 1 milimeter sea lifeform has no comprehension of a blue whale passing by, because of his dna atoms sequence. human da was once the same as that sea lifeform, through the environment  and through evolution adapting our dna or and our dna adopting to environment we now have five well known senses.  there a lot more in this Higgs field that we currently cant detect. see, hear, feel, taste, smell, I say we have built in compass and like shark we can detect electric fields, then why not telepathy and telekinesis that would be 9 senses. my point is if it's not necessary to environment the sense will not develop
3. this is one of his worst lectures and I still loves it - just too far over my head gives me lots of new terms and ideas to wiki
4. clearly, this guy is not a philosopher. His attempt at grasping reality are shockingly weak for a guy with his proffession. Incredible that some fields of academia gets so entirely derailed, that it's possible to have professors like that.
5. Who is this Simon and where is his lecture?
6. Good video!
7. I am the Count and I love to count .....
8. I'm not a physicist but have studied philosophy (graduate degree in the h umanties) and this reminds me, this argument around the "copies of me", or multiverse, of 18th century metaphysics...rationalism specifically...not much has changed it seems to me regarding this relationship between 'consciousness' and the world, and the issues Kant took on in his "critique of Reason"...
9. John von Neumann   (   1903  -  1957   )
   Hungarian-American Physicist, Mathematician, Contributions to Game Theory, Economics, and Pioneering Computer Scientist.
10. How are you choosing which room each boy goes into?  Randomly, of course.  Your non-randomness analogy requires randomness.
11. Sometimes i wonder if physicists like the multi-verse theory, because it means that somewhere at sometime, they got laid.
12. Max is so cute. :)
13. athest need understand angst diddling face perplex try find anser to universe riddler. we alredy got the nowledge and do invite to warm embrace cretor wisdem.
14. This is really good stuff. 
15. How can anyone believe in Copenhagen with all the strange results. That tells me they do not understand the experiments if they can hold on to that.  
16. Informational.  It's just tracking what we know about the system.  Take Sebastian Thrun's intro to AI course at Stanford and you'll see what's going on.
17. Wait maybe.. it's like this. In a eternally inflating universe; there are many Boltzmann brains. Since it is easier to make ten tails in a row and your brain with all your experiences fluctuate into existence. Hard to make a universe, then matter and radiation, then inhomogeneities, then stars and planets and life and your brain with all your experiences. Like a straight flush and win the lottery and ten tails in a row. However; once you get a universe, then matter and radiation, then inhomogeneities, then stars and planets and life and brains with human experiences. Life will reach a technological singularity; and control so much matter and energy, it will be able to reshape matter and energy into simulations of interacting artificial intelligences in chaotic systems. Therefore exponentially increase the number of intelligences; therefore overtake the probability of Boltzmann brains forming randomly from fluctuations. So once a universe with life fluctuates, the number of intelligences in that universe, will overtake the number of intelligences that are randomly fluctuated. Maybe you are more probable a highly sophisticated simulation; than a fluctuated brain. Of course, you may even be real on a real planet in primitive times... lol.       
18. What is easier fluctuating a brain or fluctuating a universe(or eternal inflation and many expensive universes Everett interpretation) and galaxies and planets and brains? Boltzmann believes it's easier to just fluctuate a brain with all your experiences, and current experience is still fluctuating. If you are a god why fluctuate a universe from primordial quantum fluctuations, when you can just fluctuate a brain, lazy god argument. I don't believe in god, but I would just fluctuate a brain(lazy god).
19. In order for the Shrodinger's Cat thing to work the ENTIRE UNIVERSE has to split and EXACT COPIES of every object in the entire universe have to be made.  Also, how fast does this happen?  Would a galaxy ten billion light years away get exactly duplicated duplicated at the exact same moment?
20. For the sake of reason I would think that every part of the (proposed) mega-universe which is (recursively) either directly or via some intermedia point indirectly connected to us (as to say: within our past or future light cone) can be called part of our universe. Outside of that (a "parallel" universe in the literal sense, having no such connection) would have to be ignored however. So "the universe" in total is a topological connected whole.