Multiway minds with Stephen Wolfram

Can you hold in your mind two different threads of experience? In this five-minute excerpt from my conversation with Stephen Wolfram, he introduces the strange idea of a multiway mind. Most of the time, we as observers succeed in weaving multiple different paths through the multiway graph into a single thread of experience. In some circumstances, however, we’re unable to do this. If we’re unfortunate enough to find ourselves on the surface of a black hole – at the event horizon in physical space, at the entanglement horizon in branchial space – we might find ourselves frozen, unable to form a classical thought. In just five minutes, Stephen not only introduces the possibility of multiple threads of experience in a single mind, he also succeeds in weaving in diverse topics from quantum computing to societal decision-making. — Stephen Wolfram • Stephen Wolfram https://www.stephenwolfram.com/ • The Wolfram Physics Project https://www.wolframphysics.org/ • Wolfram Institute https://wolframinstitute.org/ • Wolfram Institute Community Discord https://discord.gg/zXgNHAdYxX Concepts mentioned by Stephen • Quantum computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing • Distributed computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing • Black holes https://science.nasa.gov/universe/black-holes/ • Hawking radiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation • Event horizons and entanglement horizons https://www.wolframphysics.org/technical-introduction/potential-relation-to-physics/event-horizons-and-singularities-in-spacetime-and-quantum-mechanics/ • Branchial space https://www.wolframphysics.org/technical-introduction/the-updating-process-for-string-substitution-systems/the-concept-of-branchial-graphs/ — The Last Theory https://lasttheory.com/ is hosted by Mark Jeffery https://markjeffery.com/ founder of Open Web Mind https://www.openwebmind.com/ Prefer to listen to the audio? Search for The Last Theory in your podcast player, or listen at https://lasttheory.com/podcast/071-multiway-minds Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.