Vlatko Vedral: Everything is information

Physicist Vlatko Vedral explains to Aleks Krotoski why he believes the fundamental stuff of the universe is information and how he hopes that one day everything will be explained in this way

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[Cowicide]

This hurts brain... so good.

[Eizbaers]

If everythings like a computer, would it be possible to then hack reality , and alter the laws of physics.?

[YamiSs10]

Three dislikes.....hmmm Who'd make something like that?

1) Was Einstein

2) Was the Pope

3) Some western classical philosopher

[malditonuke]

if everything is information, then intellectual property law is redundant.

[hejjagheterpal]

@Eizbaers Yes, use drugs to do that :)

[psytach]

i would marry that quantum girl! :P

[vonkruel]

Whether or not true randomness really exists is a very interesting question. Simply because we observe what appears to be randomness (as in we can't predict the system's behavior), we cannot conclude that the underlying reality is non-deterministic. We can only say "it looks random to us". At least that's my attempt at thinking about it; I only have a very shallow knowledge of QM.

[expandingvoid]

@Eizbaers i think the laws are what store the information itself, which is what you'd be hacking

[quantcorr]

@Eizbaers If the reality is like a computer at least the computer would not be classical, it would be a *quantum* computer. And for that kind of computer some "hacks" would just be impossible.

[quantcorr]

This is very interesting part, at 11:40 - that quantum reality pushes all the time fresh information into our reality which cannot be explained by anything because it is truly genuine. Quantum reality is just amazing ...

[sauroman1]

Science is looking how stuff works but ignores ultimate purpose and that's very bad because it can lead big errors.

Interesting thing is intuition - inborn knowledge. Every thought is based on intuition. Science uses both intuition and logic. Both constitute understanding of world and both are INFORMATION.

[sadathusain]

He's here at NUS!