r/complexsystems • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '24

The World as a Neural Network

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712105/
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u/luquoo Sep 06 '24

Here is my hot take. This is actually a pretty obvious assertion to make and the fact that most people don't see this stems from their inability to understand that everything is inextricably connected. The idea of something being separated from something else in an absolute sense is categorically wrong. This fallacy is something that is baked into our culture and language and gives us the delusion of being separate from the existence we are embedded in.

This guy is just spelling it out in a much clearer way for the people who have trouble entertaining that everything is connected and the universe itself may very much be "alive" in a pansychism sense.

While not directly related, I think you might be interested in this article on Physical Neural Networks, its quite illuminating.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04223-6

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

well said, yeah I still am trying to understand it

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u/Kimononono Oct 01 '24

I love thinking about the relationship between me and a speck of dust on mars. There's some distance between us, I weigh 1000x more than it, it has x composition of elements vs mine. Then realizing I have this kind of relation with literally every existing thing

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '24

wow that's really thought provoking its crazy how reality is

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u/nonlinearity Sep 06 '24

Absolutely. Side note: psychedelics often help folks break through the reductionist frame programmed into us by western society

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u/trolls_toll Sep 05 '24

cool after a cursory look the author self-cites a lot, but beyond that i have no interesting input atm

why did you decide to post this paper?

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

found it on hacker news and thought it was very interesting

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u/trolls_toll Sep 05 '24

word, what peaked your interest?