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One rule to rule them all? with Jonathan Gorard
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Length:
7 minutes
Released:
Jul 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In the early days of the Wolfram Physics Project, Stephen Wolfram seemed to be seeking a single rule that, when applied to the hypergraph, could generate our universe.More recently, however, Wolfram has promoted the idea of the ruliad, the application of every possible rule to the hypergraph.So I asked Jonathan Gorard, who was instrumental in the founding of the Wolfram Physics Project, whether all rules might be applied to generate our universe, or whether he was searching for one rule to rule them all.—Stephen Wolfram’s 2010 TED talk in which he said he was committed “to see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe”.Jonathan Gorard
Jonathan Gorard at The Wolfram Physics Project
Jonathan Gorard at Cardiff University
Jonathan Gorard on Twitter
The Centre for Applied Compositionality
The Wolfram Physics Project
Concepts mentioned by Jonathan
Equivalence class
Congruence class
Lagrangian mechanics
Hamiltonian mechanics
Teleology
Ontology
Axiomatic view of mathematics – top-down
Constructivist view of mathematics – bottom-up
Domain of discourse
Intuitionism
Algorithmic information theory
—The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery, founder of the Open Web MindI release The Last Theory as a video too! Watch here.Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.
Jonathan Gorard at The Wolfram Physics Project
Jonathan Gorard at Cardiff University
Jonathan Gorard on Twitter
The Centre for Applied Compositionality
The Wolfram Physics Project
Concepts mentioned by Jonathan
Equivalence class
Congruence class
Lagrangian mechanics
Hamiltonian mechanics
Teleology
Ontology
Axiomatic view of mathematics – top-down
Constructivist view of mathematics – bottom-up
Domain of discourse
Intuitionism
Algorithmic information theory
—The Last Theory is hosted by Mark Jeffery, founder of the Open Web MindI release The Last Theory as a video too! Watch here.Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.
Released:
Jul 13, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (59)
Where’s the computer that runs the universe?: I've been running simulations of our universe, according to Stephen Wolfram's computational theory of physics, on my low-powered laptop. If Wolfram's right and the real universe evolves computationally in the same way as these simulated universes, where's by The Last Theory