303 | AMA | February 2025

675.856 - 694.81 Sean Carroll

His comment about how understanding something requires compressing it in some way and how the brain perhaps cannot be compressed in that way is something I keep thinking about. It's as if the only way to understand a brain is to be a brain, sort of like how perfectly simulating a universe requires something the size of the universe. Did this comment of Jeff's leave an impression on you as well?