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The Universe Might Be Learning Itself
Vanchurin wondered what would happen if we modelled the cosmos as a neural network. When he ran the math, the behaviour matched the equations of quantum mechanics. In other words — reality might already be computing itself.
We are not just studying neural networks — we might actually be living inside one.— Vitaly Vanchurin
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The thinker
Physicist exploring the neural universe
Dr. Vitaly Vanchurin is a theoretical physicist at the University of Minnesota Duluth. His 2020 paper proposed that the entire universe could be understood as a massive neural network, blurring physics and information theory.
Based on Vitaly Vanchurin – The World as a Neural Network (arXiv, 2020), summarised and reframed by Insights.
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