Science Needs a Covenant between Truth and Language: Glen on the Role of the Observer Part 3

In Part 3 of this discussion regarding the role of the observer, Glen weaves together ideas of robust computing (demon horde sort) and distributed intelligence. He makes the claim that it could be mathematically verified whether or not computation is fundamental, and that if it turns out to be so, then language is also fundamental, since computation and language are inextricably intertwined.

We also learn that handedness (chirality) is hierarchical. links follow timestamps. Timestamps 0:00

Intro 0:15 Recapping the end of Part 2

2:00 Central Planning v. Distributed Intelligence

3:00 Responding to viewer’s comments

4:45 PBS Spacetime on the participatory universe

8:32 John Wheeler’s biggest question: Whose bit?

12:20 Implications of observers and the quantum mechanical universe

16:20 A vision  ...