The author argues that things become 'objective' when many independent channels carry the same information—environmental records in quantum systems, shared social records like money, and reproducible experiments in science. He proposes a unified mathematical framework for this consensus mechanism and flirts with allowing limited, structured non‑reproducibility in complex domains.
— This reframes replication and truth‑verification as problems of building independent, redundant evidence, informing scientific norms and media authentication.
Seeds of Science
2025.07.23
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TL;DR: 'reproducibility, or redundancy of consistent records, is what makes something “objectively true,”' illustrated via Quantum Darwinism (photons copying the cat’s state) and social constructs.
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