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Quantum Gravity Relativistic Quantum Information
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Why Our Universe is Comprehensible
arXiv
Authors: James B. Hartle
Year
2016
Paper ID
41998
Status
Preprint
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Einstein wrote memorably that `The eternally incomprehensible thing about the world is its comprehensibility.' This paper argues that the universe must be comprehensible at some level for information gathering and utilizing subsystems such as human observers to evolve and function.
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