Vlatko Vedral: Everything is information

Physicist Vlatko Vedral explains to Aleks Krotoski why he believes the fundamental stuff of the universe is information and how he hopes that one day everything will be explained in this way

[@tlafleur8433]

I love that he's humble and not arrogant, he claims he's a simpleton, a physicist, so refreshing to listen to.

[@christineliang4670]

It is the best conversation about what's going on in our deepest reality, both the interviewee and the interviewer, Great Job, Vlatko!! It's like, we are programming the universe all the time, every day, every minute!

[@johnb4314]

Excellent interviewer. She asks great questions and really adds to the information from Dr. Vedral. Well done. I'll have to look for more of her work.

[@bobrolander4344]

Wonderful interview. Thoughtful questions and passionate answers. I think Vlatko Vedral is really on to something here. Anton Zeilinger too has said that strange quantum phenomena are more comprehensible when viewed as very small systems that can only carry a small amount of information. Like small pieces of paper can only have a list of a few items. But I think in the mesoscopic world, the world of solid state physics and complex chemistry, we will never reach an endpoint, because you can always add more complexity to any given system. Similiar to Gödels theorems any conceptual framework about reality as a whole, will have holes and paradoxes that can only be explained by a even bigger conceptual model. An infinite regress, that will keep scientists in business forever.

[@mladenvukmir]

Not only do I find this fascinating, I find it truly well founded. I've written about this very hypothesis back in 1990 in my post-graduate thesis. I focused on the social aspect of application of this theory. Now I've uploaded the old draft for my book to the Amazon Kindle Store. For those interested, the relevant portion is in Chapter 3 of the ebook entitle Integral Protection of Intellectual Property.

[@osks]

Please share your essay - it is truly a fascinating subject…

[@GyanAddict]

In simple words, in order to understand one thing or concept, you need to have a base. If you want to measure the length of something, you need a fixed scale, like centimetres. Everything is dependent on something else or some base. Science has a set of bases or rules, which actually are not fixed. Like the speed of light, or the size of an electron, or the age of the universe. So everything we know as true is based upon some other information. And the basic information is not fixed. So everything is variable and we are lost in an infinite vacuum and we are confused of how to measure it and what yo measure it with. If you still don't understand, it's fine. The universe still exists and we are still confused.

[@katherinestone333]

"Reality and information are the same. We need a new concept which encompasses both. In a sense reality and information are the two sides of the same coin. I feel that this is the message of the quantum." Anton Zeilinger (2005)

[@abistonservices9249]

I totally agree with you "Reality & Information are the same! 👍

[@rohitkohok6631]

very informative. thanks.

[@osks]

A truly brilliant interview dealing with a fascinating subject…

[@R4G3QUI7]

Браво Србине!

[@KTK401]

You are altering the universe and reprogramming it every time you think, use your thoughts, produce actions as well as produce information! You are programming the universe all the time! best wishes

[@memeticmaster]

This just makes me believe even more that we are the sims 13.

[@Spurv3D]

Thomas Campbell explains this really well with his TOE (theory of everything), it's worth to take a look.

[@sastavideoswala]

Awesome!

[@arendpsa]

I learned that everything must be information because we perceive it as such. Order depends on sufficient information while entropy is per definition caused by an information deficit.

[@alfgiam8822]

Recently I read a book by a pseudonimous author "Paralternativecelsus", which has a similar hypothesis, but it goes even further applying the concept of entropy (physical information) to memetics and biological systems. It is really an interesting viewpoint.

[@quantcorr]

This is very interesting part, at 11:40 - that quantum reality pushes all the time fresh information into our reality which cannot be explained by anything because it is truly genuine. Quantum reality is just amazing ...

[@abistonservices9249]

He thinks the same way i do, the answer is not 42 (The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy) but just mathematics basically on/off binary code that bootstraps itself and cannot be turned off, who started it, it started itself, read Chaos theory!

[@vonkruel]

Whether or not true randomness really exists is a very interesting question. Simply because we observe what appears to be randomness (as in we can't predict the system's behavior), we cannot conclude that the underlying reality is non-deterministic. We can only say "it looks random to us". At least that's my attempt at thinking about it; I only have a very shallow knowledge of QM.

[@jamesof7seven]

Oh yeah, I remember first hearing about this from Richard Rosner and Christopher Langan way way back in the day. Good that some insider academics could pick it up and make it legit.

[@IgnacioZamoraG]

Mr. MaxPr1me969, Your thoughts are interesting. Where can I read the books you refer to? Are you a phycisist?

[@megavide0]

"So, I think there is hope for us to understand more and more..."

[@KTK401]

The information creates the matter/energy.

[@PilipinoGaming]

interestin stuff, if true then this could solve all kinds of paradox

[@davidwilkie9551]

QM combines infinite regression and progression in superposition. Because the interference patterning of the combined universal event has macro-micro limits of the Quantum Information vanishing point. (The turtles are suspended in space?) If "belief" etc is tested and is converted to knowledge it's the same as theory.

[@rosebrw]

He means that entropy and information are linked in a fundamental way, not that we can 'hack' into reality.

[@ChristianPodcast]

If the Universe is composed of information, that explains a lot about our human interest for reality, truth, wisdom. In the same way some might think Faith has nothing to do, it actually can be connected more than we think.

[@au10666]

this guys a genius

[@jonorion5095]

In spite of a lot of talking, the information content of this video is very low. I love this topic, but I'm finding it incredibly difficult to get any real "meat" anywhere.

[@boxbino]

Jon Orion read a book LOL jk

[@astroboomboy]

I think there is good reason to think that the laws of physics could be altered dramatically, but I think it is impossible for a creature (like us) to do it as we would need to travel faster then the speed of light and control a much larger part of the universe then our visible universe. From outside of our visible universe we could (theoretically) gather enough energy to completely alter our universe, or infuse it with more energy than it has, that could change the laws in some way, maybe...

[@MaxPr1me969]

Everything is information at all levels...The micro to the macro! We use our 5 senses to gather the information within our spectrum, that with our intelligence allows us to navigate and ultimately manipulate our environment. (Light, Sound, Touch(physical) , Taste and Smell(chemical)). Thereafter we need tools to gather information beyond our limited spectrum. ORDER does not exist without disorder the Law of Polarity. INFINITY is the only explanation without flaw.

[@abistonservices9249]

It seems everything comes from simplicity (quantum) to the complicated the universe & chaos theory.

[@danzigvssartre]

Everyday notions of ‘semantic information’ are not to be confused with Shannon Information or Information Entropy. I wish these scientists would stop confusing the general public...and themselves.

[@Eizbaers]

If everythings like a computer, would it be possible to then hack reality , and alter the laws of physics.?

[@samwall9922]

doesnt information require a measurement/observer?

[@StephenPaulKing]

Information is "the difference between two that makes a difference to a third". Point of view must be taken into consideration.

[@InfoArtistJKatTheGoodInfoCafe]

"It is operationally impossible to separate reality and information" -- Professor Anton Zeilinger, Quantum Information Physicist From the book, "Zurkowski's 40 Year Information Literacy Movement Fueling the Next 40 Years of Action Literacy" by JK & Zurkowski

[@Devilofdoom]

What if reality is simply a quantum bit that equals both 0 and 1 at the same time? This would mean that all combinations of 0 and 1 must exist.

[@sastavideoswala]

Yes true everything is like that

[@jamesof7seven]

Doesn't really change anything. Everything is an idea, anything you experience, no matter what. What's changed?

[@patrickmcmanus1360]

PLATONISM !!! Long live platonism!!

[@quantcorr]

@Eizbaers If the reality is like a computer at least the computer would not be classical, it would be a *quantum* computer. And for that kind of computer some "hacks" would just be impossible.

[@harpysong]

the idea of information imply's an informer and informed. a source of the stuff which is information and for the information to be , it needs a receiver which implicates the informer had to make a system/mechanism of reception....ego.reality ls there has to be a place to observe information as it is. not second hand from the senses or the mind , no where else in this information field of what is can we see a questioning of what is. making what is a human being the real microscope to reality.

[@StephenPaulKing]

Sorta, as long as there are no local violations of conservation laws.

[@19n05k83]

I have read his book "Decoding Reality" and I am not sure if it is bad translation to Serbian or just the book is bad. Great idea and hypothesis but author should made more effort in writing it. So many bad examples, arguments and just wrong statements that are so strange for a scientist like Mr. Vedral to write down. Let me just believe it's a bad translation from English to Serbian.

[@MaxPr1me969]

Aristotle, Einstein and now Max Prime. Stay tuned for more of my genius!!!

[@thrdel]

The question : If everything is information , where is that information coming from ?.... there must be a god who created it ... brings to mind the simulation theory. We are all aware that fantastically complex programs , video , sound , etc , start with the most basic information , 0 and 1. Complexity is simple and simplicity is complex. Ultimately , 0 and 1 can be considered the two sides of a coin , zero means nothing without a one and one means nothing without a zero. In the same way existence and nonexistence make no sense one without the other. But at the same time they are the only two sides of the coin, to be or not to be... The coin is , as I believe quantum physics tries to explain , a super position of the two states , existence and nonexistence at the same time.

[@arendpsa]

Information materializes by human consciousness through his door of perception.

[@MaxPr1me969]

Nothing like the Matrix...The matrix only deals in a light or sight and sound world, but our universe has many more dimensions. tactile, and chemical to name a few than there are the ones which we are unable to read.

[@tlafleur8433]

The uncaused cause is always the deeper idea but that involves philosophy not science.

[@abistonservices9249]

Everything is mathematics information it seems. 🤔

[@voshnarenek8084]

Somebody's been reading Christopher Langan.

[@stratovation1474]

Shannon knew relativity so he must have known the basics of QM.

[@YamiSs10]

Three dislikes.....hmmm Who'd make something like that? 1) Was Einstein 2) Was the Pope 3) Some western classical philosopher

[@GodinciOrg]

Shannon was able to find a useful way to compress information; using his view of information (which rather deals with data than with information) is misleading. The view, as presented here in the youtube, is a narrow one and becomes nonsense when generalized.

[@stanimeredith]

excellent talk by Vlatko Vedral. too bad the woman conducting the interview has no real clue about the scientific topics covered and was asking only superficial questions.

[@mikes9620]

+Stani Meredith prize49(dot)blogspot(dot)ca Lotto649 Research. Good Luck

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

She's awfully cute though.

[@IcedPhoenix666]

@Eizbaers That's what science is trying to do.

[@paulwatson7176]

In my opinion the entire universe is mathematically consevabl

[@basass101]

@bass109 i just imagine you stamping peoples' foreheads with that.

[@KotMaya]

It's spelled geniuses, not genius's. And this comment is coming from someone who is not a native English speaker. Yes, some people are so full of it...

[@unknowntexan4570]

His explanation about God is a cop out.

[@MaxPr1me969]

LOVE is a chemical reward which our brain gives us to direct us to survival. These people are so full of it. So over educated and far from understanding it provokes frustration. But then again we all can't be genius's. My Books THE PROGRAM AND UNI-VERSED. will explain this all.

[@jayb1013]

This is what is in the Bible. In the beginning was the word (verb), the word was with God, and the word was God. It also says God is love. Love is also called self-esteem, self-interest, the golden rule, respect, do no harm, etc.

[@SabreenSyeed]

This is such a Quranic concept i.e. Reality being information. The Quran calls the universe "Aalam" which actually is derived from "i'lm" which means Information.

[@psytach]

i would marry that quantum girl! :P

[@benechobox]

Information = knowledge? O:

[@Phelionyx]

No. Different definitions.

[@fennavitch]

first?

[@MaxPr1me969]

And yes he is a simpleton and she is a super-simpleton.

[@SecondSight]

this is just nonsense im sorry

[@TacticalSpectre]

How so?

[@SecondSight]

TacticalSpectre damn, I had forgotten about this video / comment. Well, rewatching the video now, vlatko's whole perspective just doesn't jive with my view at all. I mean who knows, fundamentally, but yeah. A couple points: "information" to my way of thinking, is not a real thing. In the physical world it manifests as constraints, so what came before will constrain what can come in the future. Information as a way for creating objects could just be constraints as the physical laws, enabling an evolution towards a more stable system over time, that then when the energy source is dry, will "loosen up" and change into other objects. And yes, it can and even must be deterministic. Information is then really just all the shapes and motions physical objects can move / change. There's nothing to do with probability in there. Probability arises on larger scales involving billions of objects, say. But that is fundamentally different from say, Claude Shannon. Communicating a message in a medium between endpoints is about being sure that your message arrives safely in a noisy physical system, and so you need ways to verify the message. Humans and other organisms with a brain have created a new dimension of information, but this subjective information is different from the constraints in nature, I think. But this is what Claude Shannon was primarily talking about, transmitting a message of some kind reliably through a physical medium. I think my disagreement with Vlatko has to do with this notion of probability more than anything else. I haven't read his book, and it may just be a lack of creativity on my part I admit, but this doesn't work for me at all ;d

[@TacticalSpectre]

coaxx I appreciate the quick reply, also sorry for bringing you back to this, I just wanted to hear an opposing view.

[@bobaldo2339]

Seeing everything as "information" is a fad. None of these guys has a clue what a meaningful rigorous definition of the word might be. "Information" is something in your head. Until it gets there it is something else - not "information". You could call it "potential information" if you want to be nauseatingly cute. But, what is it when it gets into your head? What does it mean to know? The scientists insist it is all physical. Okay, what are the physics of knowledge? And don't start by talking about electrochemical events (as if you were going to be rigorous) and end up back with some vague concept of everyday language (like "information" or "knowledge") - which is what always happens in these half ass explanations, and is the intellectual equivalent of saying "you know" over & over. If you see the universe as information, what you probably have is a fat head.

[@omniluiz]

What are the physics of knowledge if not a bunch of electrochemical events? Read about how our brain process information, you're gonna see that we are just a biological computer. Read about how DNAs are just programs of life. We are information in the most fundamental meaning of the word.Not just we, but everything that exists and also don't exist. Things in its essence are modeled, described and treated as information.