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I've always liked the idea that the universe worked something like a cellular automaton at its lowest level, but I was always uncomfortable with how that presup

I've always liked the idea that the universe worked something like a cellular automaton at its lowest level, but I was always uncomfortable with how that presupposed a specific grid and a very rigid system of time. This system of hypergraph-rewriting excites me because it seems like a more generalized form/alternative to cellular automatons that fixes these issues. And then it's super exciting to see that you can get relativity and QM-like effects as emergent properties from this sort of system.

ncmncm 7y ago
Each generation imagines God as whatever is coolest right then. In Newton's day, the universe was a tower clock. Humanity will be around for, well, a few more years, not a blink of the universe's eye. Our grandchildren will have time to look into things, if civilization doesn't collapse. What are the odds that they will decide we were right, that the universe really is something we know about already?