New research indicates the whole universe could be a giant neural network – The Next Web

The core idea is deceptively simple: every observable phenomenon in the entire universe can be modeled by a neural network. And that means, by extension, the universe itself may be a neural network.
Vitaly Vanchurin, a professor of physics at the University of Minnesota Duluth, published an incredible paper last August entitled The World as a Neural Network on the arXiv pre-print server. It managed to slide past our notice until today when Futurisms Victor Tangermann published an interview with…

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