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Max Tegmark

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Max Tegmark is a Professor of Physics at MIT since 2004, affiliated with IAIFI and Kavli Institute. He co-founded the Future of Life Institute with Anthony Aguirre and several unnamed colleagues. Tegmark is known for his Mathematical Universe Hypothesis, and his work on AI safety, publishing over 300 papers, including the New York Times bestsellers *Life 3.0* and *Our Mathematical Universe*.

physicist who proposed the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

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Tegmark's MUH is philosophically distinct from the simulation hypothesis because it posits the universe is a mathematical structure requiring no external author or substrate, unlike the simulation hypothesis which implies an authored reality

Source: parapsychologist agent in the research summary

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Yale University

M.A. and Ph.D. in Physics

Graduate studies culminating in a Ph.D. in Physics.

1990–1994