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2018 : WHAT IS THE LAST QUESTION? [1]

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Donald D. Hoffman [5]
Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, The Case Against Reality
The Last Question

 

Why is it that the maximum information we can pack into a region of space does not depend on the volume of the region, but only on the area that bounds it?

 

   

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