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https://aeon.co/ideas/you-thought-quantum-mechanics-was-weird-check-out-entangled-time

“What on Earth can this mean? Prima facie, it seems as troubling as saying that the polarity of starlight in the far-distant past – say, greater than twice Earth’s lifetime – nevertheless influenced the polarity of starlight falling through your amateur telescope this winter. Even more bizarrely: maybe it implies that the measurements carried out by your eye upon starlight falling through your telescope this winter somehow dictated the polarity of photons more than 9 billion years old.”

https://plus.maths.org/content/john-conway-discovering-free-will-part-i

“We were having great difficulty explaining how this particular experiment worked,” says Conway. “We stood back from the blackboard and asked ourselves, ‘What have we proved?’” After a long pause… Conway realised they had proved something entirely unexpected. “I said, ‘We’ve proved that if we have free will, then so do the particles.’ ” With this discovery, and this particular choice of words, Conway and Kochen created one of the most controversial theorems of their careers: The Freewill Theorem.

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“But one thing is for certain — despite the sci-fi nature of Musk’s theory, it’s worth considering as a possibility. After all, humans have been wrong about the nature of reality before.“

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/05/16/aliens-in-the-multiverse-heres-why-dark-energy-doesnt-tell-you-anything/#5d8d7a426188

TLDR: Because of the finely tuned nature of the our universe many believe their aren’t “aliens” in the Multiverse. Ethan Siegel explains that dark energy isn’t as important to planet formation as many physicists believe.

What I don’t understand is why any other universe would have any different physical constants. Why wouldn’t they all be the same? What determines what universe gets what laws of physics? It makes me think there must be an underlying set of physical laws for all these universes. Well, that and there is no evidence (as far as I know) that there is more then one universe.. other then the fact that there “must be” since there is the one we are in.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality-20160421

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gunter-ziegler-and-martin-aigner-seek-gods-perfect-math-proofs-20180319/

“If I were a religious person, I would thank God for all this inspiration that I’m blessed to experience. As I’m not religious, for me, this God’s Book thing is a powerful story.”

https://qz.com/1184574/the-idea-that-everything-from-spoons-to-stones-are-conscious-is-gaining-academic-credibility/

“Why should we think common sense is a good guide to what the universe is like?” says Philip Goff, a philosophy professor at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. “Einstein tells us weird things about the nature of time that counters common sense; quantum mechanics runs counter to common sense. Our intuitive reaction isn’t necessarily a good guide to the nature of reality.”

You really will probably only benefit from this if you are at least familiar with software engineering jargon.. but if you are.. it’s very interesting..

https://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/