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Single Thread Of Experience Needed For Physics
Deriving the laws of physics we observe requires that observers maintain a single thread of experience through time and a notion of pure motion (maintaining identity while moving through space) even though the universe is being rewritten enormous numbers of times per second and a moving object is made of different atoms of space at its destination; these two attributes are what is needed to derive general relativity and quantum mechanics.
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Stephen WolframEvidence Quote
“in our model of physics everything about the universe is being rewritten 10 to the 100 times a second, or something like this. And so the fact that we have the idea that we are still the same us a second later is non-trivial.”
Source
155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics— Sean Carroll's MindscapeCreated: 6/13/2026, 3:30:55 AM
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