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There is research claiming the entire universe is a neural network: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic

There is research claiming the entire universe is a neural network: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712105/

mxkopy 3y ago
Indra's Net is, in fact, a neural network
mcbuilder 3y ago
That's the sort of blue sky research I'm glad exists.
__loam 3y ago
Frankly, stuff like this makes me more skeptical of the ML community. Remember when people thought Brains were just really complicated hydraulic systems?
- 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
  Vanchurin is a physics professor, but ok https://twitter.com/vanchurin?lang=en https://twitter.com/vanchurin?lang=en I actually think that interdisciplinary work like this can shed light into common structures across physics, biology, neuroscience, CS, etc. If anything, I wish there were more attempts to explore the connections between these disciplines.
- opportune 3y ago
  The author is basically a crank, it looks like they held some teaching positions in an unrelated subject at various universities yielding the “professor” title, and originally studied/published actual research in cosmology decades back. Might as well be skeptical of the math community because of circle squarers
  - 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
    > The author is basically a crank Really not sure why do you say this. Is it something personal against him? Are you against people exploring weird interdisciplinary topics? He has tons of publications [1], including co-authorship with people like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin Koonin is certainly not a crank, and is a rather well-known interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of biology and physics. [1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nEEFLp0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nEEFLp0AAAAJ...
mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
You can find theoretical physics research claiming a lot of bonkers things that almost certainly are not true, that's sort of the nature of the field.

There is research claiming the entire universe is a neural network: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712105/

mxkopy 3y ago

Indra's Net is, in fact, a neural network

mcbuilder 3y ago

That's the sort of blue sky research I'm glad exists.

__loam 3y ago

Frankly, stuff like this makes me more skeptical of the ML community. Remember when people thought Brains were just really complicated hydraulic systems?

0xBABAD00C 3y ago
Vanchurin is a physics professor, but ok https://twitter.com/vanchurin?lang=en https://twitter.com/vanchurin?lang=en I actually think that interdisciplinary work like this can shed light into common structures across physics, biology, neuroscience, CS, etc. If anything, I wish there were more attempts to explore the connections between these disciplines.
opportune 3y ago
The author is basically a crank, it looks like they held some teaching positions in an unrelated subject at various universities yielding the “professor” title, and originally studied/published actual research in cosmology decades back. Might as well be skeptical of the math community because of circle squarers
- 0xBABAD00C 3y ago
  > The author is basically a crank Really not sure why do you say this. Is it something personal against him? Are you against people exploring weird interdisciplinary topics? He has tons of publications [1], including co-authorship with people like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin Koonin is certainly not a crank, and is a rather well-known interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of biology and physics. [1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nEEFLp0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nEEFLp0AAAAJ...

mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago

You can find theoretical physics research claiming a lot of bonkers things that almost certainly are not true, that's sort of the nature of the field.