Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Seth Lloyd, Max Tegmark, Falsifiability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

The big picture is psychology a science? before we can answer this, we have to figure out what makes something a science. Rich terrile director of the center for evolutionary computation and automated design at. Is the world real we may as well proceed on the assumption that the world is real in order for us to do science. Mit prof who says the universe is made out of information so what difference would it be if we are bits in a simulation instead of bits in a real universe. Max tegmark says if our world is a simulation we should try to live interesting lives, so the simulators don"t get bored with us (and end the simulation) The role of theories a theory organizes knowledge explains laws predicts new laws a theory guides research by: defining terms suggesting new experiments suggesting new approaches.