As you’ll know from Episode 8: Where’s the computer that runs the universe? ( read ⋅ listen ⋅ watch ), I have my doubts about the existence of a computer that’s whirring away, applying Wolfram’s rules to Wolfram’s graphs, performing the computations required to run our universe.This computer, if it exists, is necessarily invisible to us, and as I warned in Episode 12: Beware invisible things ( read ⋅ listen ⋅ watch ) we should be wary of what we can’t see.Still, I want to revisit this idea of a computer that runs the universe.I want to come at it from a slightly different direction.Rather than adopt the stance of the monkey with its hands over its eyes and insist that if I can’t see it, it’s not there, let’s suppose that there is a computer that runs the universe and ask a simple question:How big would it have to be?—Other episodes I mention:
Episode 8: Where’s the computer that runs the universe? – read ⋅ listen ⋅ watch

Episode 12: Beware invisible things – read ⋅ listen ⋅ watch

Episode 15: Where to apply Wolfram’s rules? – read ⋅ listen ⋅ watch

—I release The Last Theory as a video too! Watch here.The full article is here.Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.