Patterns
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Here’s How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious
An AI’s answer to this question can reveal its inner life—or lack thereof.
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The Math That Takes Newton Into the Quantum World
How a math professor learned to stop worrying and love algebraic geometry.
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How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The fabric of space and time is widely believed by physicists to be emergent, stitched out of quantum threads according to an unknown pattern. And for 22 years, they’ve had a toy model of how emergent space-time can work: a theoretical […]
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How the Universe Remembers Information
A “memory matrix” might solve Stephen Hawking’s black-hole paradox.
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The Case for Being Skeptical of Moral Outrage
If, as the research shows, our moral outrage is highly sensitive to actions but not consequences, we might want to treat feelings of moral outrage—whether others’ or our own—skeptically. Photograph by Vjacheslav_Kozyrev / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The episode last month at the Lincoln Memorial, involving […]
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What Dark Matter Needs Are New Kinds of Experiments
After 30 years and no results, it’s time to support more entrepreneurial physicists.