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Computation and the Fundamental Theory of Physics - with Stephen Wolfram

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A new way of merging/understanding physics through the lens of computational systems (Cellular Automata). 

 

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Wolfram has been claiming he will arrive at some grand unified theory through some kind of finite state automata for ages now, and so far he's had fairly little success proving his theory. His work is important but I don't think it leads where he thinks it does

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@impulse9 Yeah, it's still early tho, the project was only published last year, tho it's not accepted by most physicists. His approach to science is fundamentally different than most traditional physicists, I think. Due to the understanding of computational irreducibility, he recognizes the unknowability of certain complexity in the structure of existence. Taking a computational rather than equational approach might be a better perspective than the perspective of pure observation. By building computational models that are similar to reality, you can work your way backward and observe the structure of reality (to some degree) rather than only relying on the content. 

They are still interesting ideas nonetheless. 

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17 hours ago, impulse9 said:

he will arrive at some grand unified theory through some kind of finite state automata

Lol


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On 19/07/2021 at 10:18 AM, erik8lrl said:

A new way of merging/understanding physics through the lens of computational systems (Cellular Automata). 

 

   He is getting closer, as slowly as ut is going. Systems like this will benefit many people, for example:

https://futurism.com/neoscope/brain-reading-tech-paralyzed-thoughts-words

   Something as simple as that, but magnitudes more complexity would do the trick.

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