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Max Tegmark Quotes

born 1967 Sweden

Max Tegmark (born May 5, 1967) is a Swedish-American physicist, cosmologist and machine learning researcher. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute.

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I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.

Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged.

If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.

We have to get away from this idea today with some fact-checking sites which might themselves have an agenda and you just trust it because of its reputation. You want to have these sort of systems [where] they earn your trust and that is completely transparent.

There's no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible...

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2014)

My favorite movie of all time is... Life of Brian. We really should try and reenact this epic skit, "What have the Romans ever done for us?" by saying "What has physics ever done for us? ...But ...besides ...the internet and transistors, what has physics ever done for us?"

Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein (2020)

I soon grew disillusioned, concluding that economics was... intellectual prostitution... rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear.

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2014)

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