Can you hold in your mind two different threads of experience?
In this five-minute excerpt from my conversation with Stephen Wolfram, he introduces the strange idea of a multiway mind.
Most of the time, we as observers succeed in weaving multiple different paths through the multiway graph into a single thread of experience.
In some circumstances, however, we’re unable to do this. If we’re unfortunate enough to find ourselves on the surface of a black hole – at the event horizon in physical space, at the entanglement horizon in branchial space – we might find ourselves frozen, unable to form a classical thought.
In just five minutes, Stephen not only introduces the possibility of multiple threads of experience in a single mind, he also succeeds in weaving in diverse topics from quantum computing to societal decision-making.
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Stephen Wolfram
- Stephen WolframThe Wolfram Physics ProjectWolfram InstituteWolfram Institute Community Discord
Concepts mentioned by Stephen
- Quantum computingDistributed computingEvent horizons and entanglement horizonsBranchial space
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The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web Mind
I release The Last Theory as a video too! Watch here.
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