About This Video

Science owes its success to its self-correcting methodology and the need for irrefutable experimental evidence. So if you’re trying to prove that the universe is information, how do you do it without being able to step outside of it? As theoretical physicist Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara explains, it’s easy for us to take a physical object and glean the informational representation of it, but it’s much more difficult to do the opposite.

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Recorded June 2011; Posted September 2011