How the universe thinks without a brain

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JohnFen · 15h ago

It's a video, so I have no idea what it's saying, but the title brings up an immediate response: do we know that the universe "thinks" at all?

downboots · 15h ago

It gets hard to talk about without agreeing on meaning

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How the universe thinks without a brain

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