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How does the universe encode meaning if there is no Alice and Bob?

One common answer is: it doesn't.

And yet, here we are, creating meaning for ourselves despite being a state of the quantum wave functions for the relevant fermion and boson fields, evolving over time according to a mathematical equation.

(Philosophical question: if the time-evolution of the wave functions couldn't be described by some mathematical equation, what would that imply?)

parent ben_w 1 year ago

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